Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Trade Edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, edgewear, & bumped corners; DJ has shelfwear, soiling, & rubbing. Interior is tight, clean, & unmarked. 4to.
Published by McGraw Hill Book Co, 1965
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by McGraw Hill Book Co, 1965
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.
Published by Triton Publishing Company 1966, 1966
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
SECOND IMPRESSION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 54pp, illus, VG (light bruising & fading to board edges & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate tanning/scuffing & fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling).
Published by London: Triton, 1965, 1965
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 679.78
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst edition, limited issue, 341 of 500 copies numbered copies of Dylan Thomas's unfinished screenplay, illustrated by Leonora Box. The father of the illustrator, Sydney Box, explains in the foreword, "Me and My Bike was written during the autumn of 1948 when Dylan was on contract to Gainsborough Pictures, of which company I was at that time Executive Producer." On a visit to the studio, Thomas explained, "I want to write the first original film operetta, it will be all about a man who loves a bicycle. it covers the whole span of this man's life. He rides penny-farthings, tandems, tricycles, racing bikes - and when he dies at the end, he rides on his bike up a sunbeam straight to heaven, where he's greeted by a heavenly chorus of bicycle bells." Octavo. Illustrated throughout by Leonora Box. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green endpapers with gilt illustrations. With dust jacket. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Bookplate to front endpaper; jacket unclipped, spine toned, crease to middle, nick to foot of spine and head of front wrapper; slipcase rubbed, short closed tear to front foot of opening: a near-fine copy in like jacket.