Consider Her Ways, First Edition (21 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Penguin Books, London, 1965, Mass market paperback, First Thus. Classic by a master of Science Fiction. Book is Very Good, one 3/8th inch closed tear at the top of the spine and some age toning to the pages, otherwise a clean tight and unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Herbert Spencer (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1965 first edition in Penguin fiction, number 2231 . Contains 6 short science fiction stories by Wyndham, cover design by Herbert Spencer. Extremely clean interior with no writing, marks or tears and all pages tight in binding.Covers and spine still clean and shiny. UK shipping offer : any six Penguins combined to one postage of £3.50, postage will be reduced at checkout.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st Uk Orange penguin. This book has been well read so quite a bit of creasing, discolouration in line with a 50+ year old book, also a small drinks ring on front cover and some other marking but a tight copy. The book you see is the book you will receive so you can decide. No stock photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rupert Smith DJ design (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a VG, or better, hardcover first edition copy in a VG mylar protected DJ, 15s flap price, Rupert Smith design, blurb for six other Wyndham books on rear panel.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, lacking f.f.e.p. 223 pp. A few tears, which have been repaired at jacket rear; some minor rubbing/chipping; a little bit of soiling to rear panel, toning to endpapers, and a name in ink to front. VG and firm first edition in its original colour dustjacket, which is not price clipped. Small 8vo.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Edition. AN EX LIBRARY BOOK WITH TYPICAL LIBRARY MARKINGS. No halftitle present. Book is in only good (that is, fair or average) condition with major signs of wear and/or age. Entire DW (priced 15s nmet) has no library marks but has minor wer.

Hardback. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing hardback 224 pages Black cloth silver titles. Page edges embrowned Near Very Good condition Previous owner has written copious notes on the rear end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slightlt faded black boards; black spine lettered in gilt. A 5 mm tear and a 2 mm one on top edge. Text block edges browned. Internally two tape residue marks on each free end paper, just affecting half title.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Binding sound and tight, corners crisp, front and rear boards lightened with age, whille the spine is brilliant with gilt titling, the opposite of what one might expect to happen. Free of inscr. text clean with minor freckling to fore-edge. Dust wrapper tight and decent with marks and age darkening to rear panel, wear and tear to extremities, longest tears 1 cm. Un price-clipped. Bottom edge of inner flap has chaffed appearance.Faint cup ring mark to front panel. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Michael Joseph, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Impression (Michael Joseph, 1961). Toning to edges; light off-setting to front and rear endpapers; minor compression to spine tips.DJ has some light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Last book by an adopted Canadian author. The world as seen from the ant's point of view. Sentient Ants. Green Cloth with gilt writing on spine and portrait of ant in gilt on front cover of book. Book Condition: Good to Very Good: Spine of book considerably faded with an inch frayed thin tear along upper spine joint, and gilt lettering on spine somewhat darkened. / DJ Condition: Very Good: Some dust soiling, several small chips, rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Original $3.00 price unclipped. Mylar cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in green cloth with ant shape stamped in gilt on upper board and gilt titles on spine. Cloth faded on spine and external joints, owner name and date on front paste down and a 3/4" tear (nicely repaired) on fore edge of front free endpaper; dust jacket has some edge wear (short tears and rubs), rear panel is shelf rubbed and darkened and the rear flap is darkened along the top, side and bottom edges. Last published novel, an science fiction satire, of this German-born Canadian author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Mild offset tanning to endpapers, NEAR FINE in dust wrapper with darkening to white rear panel, minor edge wear, shadow to blank side at spine hide where an old bit of tape fell away.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1961 Michael Joseph hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good clipped dustjacket. A clean bright copy, no stmaps or inscriptions. An anthology of the writings of John Wyndham, containing three novellas and three short stories.Containing 'Consider Her Ways', 'Odd', 'Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty?', 'A Stitch in Time', 'Random Quest', and 'A Long Spoon.

First edition. Octavo, boards. Collects six stories including "A Long Spoon." According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella, "Consider Her Ways," in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 261]. 7/6 in red ink to upper corner of front free endpaper, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with a faint blue line to the upper and lower edges of the verso of the dust jacket from an older style previous jacket protector, faint bleed through to white flaps, some soiling to rear panel. (21816).

First edition. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, light rubbing to spine ends, some spots to the verso of the jacket. A collection of six cience fiction short stories by John Wyndham. Consider Her Ways was a novella that appeared in an earlier anthology, and the other five stories are printed here for the first time.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A well presented first edition of this work comprised of six short stories by John Wyndham. A first edition of these works published together in this manner. Consider Her Ways was published originally in 1956. It has been republished in this collection with five other short stories, with Consider Her Ways forming over one-third of the book. This work is in original publisher's cloth binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. John Wyndham was an English writer of science fiction whose novels were often set using classical English surroundings or characters, to imply that the plots were plausible and could happen in our society. This collection features many different works of science fictions. Consider Her Ways follows a woman named Jane who mentally time-travels to the future after taking a drug called chuinjuatin which is said to cause out-of-body experiences. The other short stories in the work are Odd, Stitch in Time, Random Quest, A Long Spoon and Oh, Where, Now is Peggy Macrafferty.With a bookseller's label for Roffey and Clark, Croydon, to the rear paste down. In original publisher's cloth binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor shelf wear. Small mark to the front board. Light offsetting and the odd mark to endpapers. With a bookseller's label for Roffey and Clark, Croydon, to the rear paste down. Dust wrapper in very good condition, with light chipping to the extremities and the odd closed tear. The odd mark to the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the occasional handling mark. Near Fine. book.

First edition. 223 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a short internally-mended tear to crown and light toning to rear panel.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Collects three short stories and three novellas by the author of "The Day of the Triffids" (1951). Light offsetting to the endpapers, else about Fine in a strong, Near Fine dust jacket with a nick to the top right corner of the front panel.

First edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Six stories, all but the title story appearing here for the first time.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper.