Borrowed Time by Fitzgerald Scott (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A selection of short stories, chosen by Alan and Jennifer Ross. No DJ. Toning to spine, rubbing to edges. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. They remain strong and sturdy. Internally, tanned pages. There is a cut out on the top of the front end page. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r*03/09/2026. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Spine and board edges discoloured, cocked, gutters cracked exposing netting, WHSmith library plate to front pastedown, closed edges foxed, pp clean and bright. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Red cloth. 1st printing of this title that was never published in the US. 366pp. Pages bit toned, else near fine. Dust jacket sunned on spine & edges. Not price-clipped. No chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER WITH DJ IN BRODART. FIRST EDITON BRICK PAPER-COVERED BOARDS, WITH TITLES STAMPED IN BLACK ON SPINE. DUSTJACKET, UNCLIPPED (PRICED 12s. 6d. net), GENTLY SPINE-SUNNED, WITH SOME WEAR TO SPINE ENDS, AND A FEW TINY NICKS AND TEARS. POSTUMOUSLY PUBLLISHED COLLECTION OF NINE SHORT STORIES, SELECTED BY ALAN AND JENNIFER ROSS; ALL OF THE STORIES WERE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BUT ARE COLLECTED HERE UNDER THIS TITLE FOR THE FIRST TIME.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Short stories selected by ALan and Jennifer Ross. Pale blue cloth boards, slightly stained and spine a little faded. Owner's name on fep and remains of book plate.

8° , Leinen. First edition, first printing. 366 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. Dustjacket unchipped and has light edgewear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. First English Edition. Collection of short stories. Dustjacket has light edgewear to corners and spine ends. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1952. Nine short stories for the first time collected under this title, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and "Babylon Revisited." There is no equivalent US edition. Book is very good++ and bright. The wrapper is very good++. Edges very slightly rubbed. Spine very slightly age toned. More digital images can be taken upon request. ref A1234.…

Hardback. Condition: Good copy in like dust jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First edition. 366pp. Short stories selected by Alan and Jennifer Ross. Dust jacket design by Peter Curl. Red boards with black titles to spine are faintly spotted to the upper part of the front board and have a couple of faint marks to the back. Faded to the spine. Text is clean. Dust jacket is slightly tanned and somewhat dust marked. Dust jacket is not price clipped but is rubbed with tiny chips to spine ends and to corners and has a short half inch tear to the bottom edge. Good copy in like dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. cloth hard Cover small 8vo. 366 PP.Near fine copy in a fine dust Jacket Original Price Present.9 short stories by Fitgerald. Scarce.

First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 447 [3]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, illustrated. With the typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Internally clean, some dustiness/toning to edges, jacket with minor nicks, toned to spine panel, some foxing to rear. A posthumous collection of short stories from the Irish-American Jazz Age writer. Includes 'May Day', considered the most bitter and mature of all his tales, and the wonderful satire 'The Diamond as Big as The Ritz', a story of the richest and most unsympathetic man in the world.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a collection of short stories, "BORROWED TIME" by F. Scott Fitzgerald with its original dust jacket. 1951 1st edition, 1st printing; The Grey Walls Press; London. The book contains nine short stories in all, as follows: The Cut-Glass Bowl; May Day; The Camel's Back; The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; The Rich Boy; Absolution; Crazy Sunday; Two Wrongs; Babylon Revisited. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the original price intact on the front flap and comes with a clear, protective sleeve (not shown). From the dust jacket: "This collection takes its title from a short piece he wrote about the 'Jazz Age' in The Crack-Up, 'an age of miracles, an age of art, an age of excess and an age of satire.it had a wild youth and a heady middle age.it ended two years ago [1929], because the utter confidence which was its essential prop received an enormous jolt.it was borrowed time anyhow.' Condition: Clean covers and spine; sharp cover corners. Light foxing at the top and bottom edges of the text block; heavier foxing at the long edge. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The text pages are clean with the exception of occasional light foxing at the outer page edges. The front end paper has dark tanning along the inner edge by the spine, a sticker affixed, and a name/year written in pen; the rear end paper has light tanning along the inner edge by the spine, light foxing, and "May 1951" stamped in ink at the bottom edge; the rear pastedown has an ink stamp at the bottom edge ("The Times Library 42, Wigmore Street, London, W.1."). Overall the book is in Very Good- condition. The dust jacket in un-clipped with the original price intact on the front flap; light foxing to the front cover, spine and flaps; heavier foxing on the back cover; small tears at the top/bottom edges of the spine and at the flap corners.overall the jacket is in Good condition.…

First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 447 [3]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, illustrated. With the typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Very light toning else a clean, fresh copy. Uncommon in this condition. A posthumous collection of short stories from the Irish-American Jazz Age writer. Includes 'May Day', considered the most bitter and mature of all his tales, and the wonderful satire 'The Diamond as Big as The Ritz', a story of the richest and most unsympathetic man in the world.…

366 pp. 12mo, publisher's red boards in dust jacket. Reprinted material. AA 3. A fine copy in an unchipped jacket with a few tiny marks; old pencilled price on front panel.

First Edition, 1951. A beautiful Fine hardcover copy in dark rose paper covered boards, in a Fine cream tan and brick colored dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 366pp. A unique collection of stories previously issued but not in this combination.

366 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Top edge a little dusty; else a near fine copy in a bright, unchipped jacket with some light soiling. There was no equivalent US edition. Bruccoli A.a.3.

First edition 1951. 366 pages. No American equivalent. Uncommon. Collects nine of his most acclaimed shorter works. Edges tanned. Red cloth with black spine lettering. Very good in grubby much edge-damaged dustjacket with losses.

First English Edition. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chip at top spine end.

First English edition. 8vo, pp. 366. A fine in dj (little faded and darkened, lacks a small portion at the top of the spine). Bruccoli AA3. Nine short stories for the first time collected under this title, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and "Babylon Revisited." There is no equivalent US edition.…