William Trevor Intro (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiii, 387pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of decorative cloth over boards. Blind stamp to half-title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Slipcase is clean and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Pritchett skilfully evokes the tiny acts of courage, betrayal and deception that make up the petty tragedies of ordinary life. In his dense, many-layered tales, whole vistas exist just beyond the story's confines; characters and plot linger in the mind long after the final page is turned. Hilda in 'When My Girl Comes Home' is feared dead in a Japanese POW camp. Only her mother keeps faith, and slaves to save money for her lost daughter. Hilda returns at last, well-groomed and sleek, talking of the man who will write a book of her life. Is she a fantasist? A whore, as other women whisper? Or a loving daughter desperate for a chance of freedom and happiness? In 'The Camberwell Beauty', the beautiful but damaged Isabel has married an elderly antiques dealer: 'He likes to look at me. I am the most precious thing he has'. 'That isn't love,' cries the narrator, but his own passion mirrors the antique dealer's lust to possess another's 'treasure'. Pritchett inspired generations of short-story writers, and William Trevor is one of many to acknowledge a debt. Trevor has personally selected and introduced 25 stories for this collection, taken from every stage in Pritchett's luminous career.(Publisher). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in slipcase. Selected and introduced by William Trevor. Published London: The Folio Society, 2000. 8vo., 414pp., full page color illustrations by Susan Wilson. Blue cloth with gilt titles and patterned paper over boards. Fine in fine slipcase.…

Hardcover. pp. 414. Royal octavo. Qurater blue cloth over patterned paper boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with lovely colour plates. No detectable flaws; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed slipcase. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine -- illus. front cover, lacking dustjacket (as issued). "Three novels in one volume' - i.e. first three in the sequence. Introduction by William Trevor. 496 pp. With colour illustrations.