Compass Error by Bedford: First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- Flavia is 17, living alone in the South of France in the late 1920s, washed up like a bit of flotsam from the wreckage of her parents' lives. Despite her chaotic childhood, Flavia is a responsible little soul. As the novel opens, the white-hot summer days find her cramming for the entrance exams to Oxford, cheerfully disciplined about her studies. A chance encounter with the wife of a famous painter leads Flavia into the nighttime world of adulthood: convivial dinners, marathon drinking, and, well, hot love. Under these influences, Flavia makes a choice that will change the course of her life. . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 221 pp red cloth with gilt title. Top edges a little spotted otherwise book clean and sound with minor shelf wear, dust wrapper rubbed at corners slightly tanned.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($8.95 price intact). Published by Dutton, 1985. Octavo. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First American Edition; First Printing. First American Edition, FFEP has a faint stamp from Scholastic magazines, a few pin pricks to the DJ. Text is clean and unmarked.; 270 pages.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original red title-blocked leatherette, slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Yellow silk doublure. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 221 pages. Notes; Collectors Edition. Subjects; Sybille Bedford 1911-2006. English fiction 20th century. France Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Riviera (France) Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original red title-blocked leatherette, slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Yellow silk doublure. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 221 pages. Notes; Collectors Edition. Subjects; Sybille Bedford 1911-2006. English fiction 20th century. France Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Riviera (France) Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded. etbls; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 221; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201462 ||. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 221 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women authors Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Bildungsromans. England Fiction. English fiction 20th century. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (25s). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a little patchy browning, few small marks, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, little pushing/bumping to corners (which has resulted in tiny loss), the odd minor crease/rub to edges and the odd spot of foxing. Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Two old prices in pen to front end-paper. Top of pages slightly dusty with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges. Pages little tanned. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 221 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women authors Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Bildungsromans. England Fiction. English fiction 20th century. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Flavia Herbert, the South of France, the 1930s Bookplate, else fine in dustwrapper. book.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. nrFine DW. 1st Edition. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket (25s) are in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Nice copy of this under-rated novel in slightly rubbed, unclipped dw. First edition.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 221. Green dust jacket with pink and white lettering. Publisher's pink cloth lettered in gilt at spine. First edition. Very good, light signs of use. In very good dust jacket with some rubbing and faint spots at rear.

Condition: Very Good. 1968 First ed. In dust wrapper which has minor wear to edges. Slight pen mark to endpaper. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Book has been well cared for. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Clean and tight first printing of this fine novel, in a complete and now protected jacket. Binding firm, and clean, with no bumped corners and gilt titling still fresh. Jacket slightly worn but complete, and in a mylar sleeve. Slight edge foxing to the text block. No former owner names. The publisher used inferior quality paper so there is some inevitable foxing, which is common to the first edition of this book. This is, nevertheless, a great collectable copy of a fine novel. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A signed first edition of Sybille Bedford's sequel to 'A Favourite of the Gods', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page.A sequel to Sybille Bedford's The Favourite of the Gods, in which seventeen-year-old Flavia discovers her true nature, even as she loses the bearings of her moral compass.Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) was a German-born English writer who was awarded the Golden PEN Award. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…