Answer Limbo by Moore, First Edition (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. #2342. 269pp. Cover by Mel Caiman and graham Bishop. Light wear, slight lean. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Condition: Good. 1965. First edition thus. 269 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

First Edition. A few very tiny spots of discoloration to cloth, name on flyleaf, else NF in lightly edgeworn, price clipped dj (VG+).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan covers. 8vo, 322 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1963). 319pp. VG/VG copy, jacket lightly edge worn with a couple of nicks, spine ends chipped, slight damp stain to lower jacket, some minor rubbing to covers, now preserved in archival jacket protector. From the library of British film director Jack Clayton (1921-1995), although no indication of provenance appears in the book. Clayton directed The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), the film adaptation of Moore's novel Judith Hearne.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Tiny wear to head and heel of spine of dust jacket. One minute closed end tear on front jacket panel, about 1/4 inch long o/w fine.stock reduction sale. 50% off regular price of 45.00. now.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fourth novel under his own name to appear in UK. Preceded by American edition, published in September 1962. Initial (not the author's!) and date on first free end paper. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. No date specified - copyright 1962. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, subtle ripple effect on front at upper corner, small circular mark (1/8 inch) on front, else very good. Pages spotless. DJ price-clipped, very lightly wrinkled at ends of spine, else very good. Protected in mylar.

HARDCOVER. Condition: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. FIRST EDITION. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN SOME TONING OF THE ENDPAPERS. D.J. IS CHIP WORN AT THE FORE-EDGE FOLDS WITH SLIGHT LOSS AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH SOME COLOR-FADE AND SOIL TO THE SPINE AND THE REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A NICE CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Slight darkening to jacket. Price-clipped.

Stated first edition. A VG+ copy in a Good dust jacket. Off-set tanning to the book's endpapers from the dust jacket's inner flaps. Tiny rubs to the corners. The dust jacket has chips to its corners and along the head and heel of its spine. Rubs to the folds. The front panel has small tears and creases along its lower edge. The rear panel is dust soiled and has a stain at its upper edge.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 319 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. d. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have light edge wear with tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Offsetting on front endpapers from a clipping, very good or better in near very good dust jacket with a couple of tears.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. 21cm, first edition, second printing, 322p., brown cloth, gilt spine titles, in price clipped jacket, fine in very good jacket (ILC.ds). ~ Set in New York ".an unforgettable story of a young writer and the ruthless dedication to which he pursues literary success success purchased at a terrible human expense." (cover). Irish born and Canadian citizen, Brian Moore lived in New York from 1959 to 1967.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Two clean, tightly bound paperbacks, pages age-toned but generally appear little used, no inscriptions. Orange Penguins, dating from 1965 & 1973.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 319pp; D/w slightly discoloured to rear else a fine copy; Size: 8vo. Book.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston. 1962. Atlantic/Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With Tear Mark On Back Cover. 322 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Rob Howard. keywords: Canada Literature Ireland World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In AN ANSWER FROM LIMBO, Brendan Tierney, a thirty-year-old Irishman who has emigrated to New York City, is supporting himself, his wife, and their two bratty children by working for a magazine while also trying to write his first novel. Moved to competitive action by a younger friend's announcement that his own novel will soon be published, Brendan hits on what he regards as a great solution to speeding his creative career: He brings his mother from Belfast to look after the children, encourages his wife, Jane, to take a job, quits his own, and devotes himself unreservedly to writing. inventory #3601 Very Good in Dustjacket With Tear Mark On Back Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in England by Redwood Burn Ltd. The spine head and heel are slightly creased, with some small tears all around the edges. Inside the book is clean with no marks or highlights or folds. price clipped dust jacket.We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition. | Bit cocked; endpapers lightly foxed; gift inscrip. flyleaf; else very good in heavily worn, price-clipped dustjacket with spine chipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover, presumed first Canadian thus, uniform edition. Blue boards, gold lettering. Jacket fine, bright, no edge wear, price-clipped. A lovely thick juicy reading copy. 319 pages. M07275.

Paperback. Condition: VG. 1st Thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Stated first edition, 1962. First American Edition. A fine book, clean fresh unmarked. Wear and soiled with coffee to rear panel of jacket. Otherwise, a handsome copy. 322pp.

1962, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 322p. 8vo. Brown cloth boards; lettering in gold to spine; publisher's device blindstamped to top board. Small spot of discolouration (rubbing?) on front board (spot smaller than 1cm circle). Previous bookseller's small sticker at foot of front pastedown. Dust jacket price clipped, mylar protected. Internally bright, tight, and clean.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first editions of An Answer From Limbo and The Emperor of Ice-Cream from award-winning novelist Brian Moore. Both stories hold parallels with the author's life. The first editions of An Answer From Limbo and The Emperor of Ice-Cream, written by Northern-Irish author Brian Moore. Limbo was published in 1963 and Emperor was published in 1966.In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Answer From Limbo contains an original gift note from publishers.A prolific writer, Moore emigrated from Belfast after the Second World War to Canada and established a strong reputation, twice winning the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction. These two stories can be seen to be inspired by author's life. An Answer From Limbo confronts themes of cultural alienation, concerning the struggles of young Irish writer living in New York with his family. The Emperor of Ice-Cream is a coming-of-age novel following a teenager in Belfast during the Second World War. In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, Emperor is in excellent condition, while Limbo is very smart with minor bumping to head of spine. Dust wrappers are smart, with small signs of wear to extremities of Limbo. A small chip to top edge of wrapper of Limbo, near joint. Very marginal marking and shelf wear to wrapper extremities of Emperor. A couple of small scratches to wrapper spines. End papers are bright and clean, with the rare faint spot to front free end paper of Limbo. Internally, Emperor is firmly bound. Limbo is generally firmly bound with loose leaves pp.47-50. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Andre Deutsch, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +, with clean and firm boards and tight page block; short former owner's name to top of fep. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine, with no tears or nicks. Not price clipped.

[1962], 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 322pp. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and is lightly rubbed on the front panel. (Fiction, Canadian).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on title to Stathis Orphanos. Stathis Orphanos was a photographer noted for his portraits of writers, including Brian Moore. He and his partner, Ralph Sylvester also operated the Los Angeles fine-press publishing company 'Sylvester & Orphanos.' First Printing. 322pp. Brick cloth blindstamp design to front cover gilt spine lettering. Endpapers a bit of offsetting, some trivial scuffs to fore edge, otherwise exceedingly clean and crisp. Dust jacket is sharp. Now in mylar. Signed By Author.

NF/NF. Shelfwear. Not price clipped with the $5.00 price intact. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. 322 pp. Ink date October, 1962 on fep.

First Edition. Slight browning to end-papers, otherwise a nice copy in somewhat chipped and soiled dust-wrapper; bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Jonathan Cape, from 1972; Bloomsbury, from 1990; others earlier. First editions, first printings throughout, with full number strip starting with 1 where called for. An Answer From Limbo, Andre Deutsch, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +, with clean and firm boards and tight text block; short (one inch of letters) former owner's name to top of fep. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine, with no tears or nicks; not price clipped. Catholics, Jonathan Cape, 1972. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine, with single closed quarter-inch tear to bottom of spine; very thin sunning line to top inside of wrapper; not price clipped. The Great Victorian Collection, Cape, 1975. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped. The Doctor's Wife, Cape, 1976. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine. The Mangan Inheritance, Cape, 1979. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good: neat former owner's mark to top of fep. Dust jacket condition: Very Good +: sixteenth-inch high by one-inch long nick to bottom of front flap; not price clipped. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes, Cape, 1981. Hardcover. Condition: Fine: UK imprint but printed in the US. Dust jacket condition: Very Good +, with no tears or nicks, but fading to spine and to bottom of front wrapper; neat price clip but with publisher's printed price sticker and Irish bookseller's printed price label above. Cold Heaven, Cape, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine: single one-inch light indentation to rear board, otherwise fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine: neat price clip but with publisher's printed price sticker adjacent. The Colour of Blood, Cape, 1987. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine: nicks to top and bottom of front flap and to top of front wrapper; not price clipped. Lies of Silence, Bloomsbury, 1990. Hardcover. Condition: Dedicated, signed and dated (24 April 1990) by the author to the title page. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped. No Other Life, Bloomsbury, 1993. Hardcover. Condition: Fine: Signed by the author to the title page. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped. The Statement, Bloomsbury, 1995. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine: no tears but with tiny nicks to edges; not price clipped. Extra postage will be required for the 11 books, particularly overseas. This will be requested following an order. Signed by Author(s).