Morrison Jessamy (12 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st UK Edition. VG, Shelfwear, ink writing on rear endpaper, foxing, browning/G, Edgewear, tears, perforations, staining, browning. Satire. Jacket by Biro. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Condition: Fair. 1965. No Edition Stated. 190 pages. Paperback book. Heavy tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and tear to spine, cover edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Minor soiling and creasing to covers and spine.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++, Bump,Edgefox,Label Ghost. 1st Edition. Drama. Jacket by C Evans. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Condition: Fair. 1963. No Edition Stated. 204 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Tape marks to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Rear flap has been removed.

Condition: Good. 1963. No Edition Remarks. 204 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+-to-Very Good. Vg clean crisp interior generally with no marks or inscriptions just a little toned to closed edge of pages and small watermark to top closed edge, boards in vg clean firm condition; d/j has small watermark visible to rear top side edge and to top edge of inner flaps but externally of vg condition generally with bright frontage, light edgewear, rubs to spine tips but no large tears or loss and not price-clipped./.

Condition: Good. 1963. No Edition Remarks. 204 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced tanning to endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked crease running through spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Water staining to panels and to reverse of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. the jacket is edge worn and shelf rubbed. small edge tears. minor damp marked. old tape residue marks. bit marked. tightly bound. [P.O.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. 192 pages. Owner's name on front blank endpaper, otherwise internally spotless. Dust jacket bright, complete. Jacket design by Val Biro. Overall a very nice first edition.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¼" 207 pp. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with 5 mm chip to spine tip, shallow rubs to corners, not price clipped 18s, spine not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Morrison, Jessamy. The wind has two edges. First edition. London: W. H. Allen, 1964. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear to edges. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. 200pp., contents clean and bright. Cover design by B. S. Biro. Peter de Polnay (8 March 1906 21 November 1984) was a Hungarian-born English novelist and non-fiction writer who wrote over 80 books. W. H. Allen & Co. published six novels that de Polnay wrote using the pseudonym Jessamy Morrison: The No-Road (1963); The Wind Has Two Edges (1964); The Girl from Paris (1965); Rusty (1966); The Office Party (1967); and The Widow (1972). Most of the Morrison novels dealt with lesbian and homosexual themes and de Polnay may have used the pseudonym to avoid problems with the Catholic Church. Peter de Polnay (8 March 1906 21 November 1984) was a Hungarian-born English novelist and non-fiction writer who wrote over 80 books. W. H. Allen & Co. published six novels that de Polnay wrote using the pseudonym Jessamy Morrison: The No-Road (1963); The Wind Has Two Edges (1964); The Girl from Paris (1965); Rusty (1966); The Office Party (1967); and The Widow (1972). Most of the Morrison novels dealt with lesbian and homosexual themes and de Polnay may have used the pseudonym to avoid problems with the Catholic Church. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 204, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket very bright, with a miniscule nick at head of front panel and a hint of rubbing to extremities, very good. The debut of an author, or at least of a nom-de-plume - recent research by Brad Bigelow on his Neglected Books website has deduced it to be among the pseudonyms of the prolific Peter de Polnay, a Hungarian émigré writing in English, here (Bigelow conjectures) protecting his identity in order not to brook conflict with his Catholicism for the orientation of its sexual themes. The novel is, the blurb announces, 'in the tradition of "The Well of Loneliness"' - in other words, an exploration of lesbianism among the privileged classes. Under her own pseudonym of 'Gene Damon', publisher and collector Barbara Grier (in her 'Lesbiana' column for The Ladder) proposed the novel as one of the best of its type: 'Written by a woman wholly sympathetic to lesbianism, this novel develops into possibly the funniest lesbian story yet written. Neither Ronald Firbank nor Compton Mackenzie reached the comic heights this book reaches. [.] This is a wonderful book'.