Consider Her Ways: First Edition (24 results)
Published by hcdj1st
- First Edition
Seller: forest primeval, cherry tree, PA, U.S.A.forest primeval
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Language: English
Published by Penguin, London, 1965
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, CanadaAnthony Clark
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Add to basketSoft 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.
More imagesPublished by Penguin, 1965
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: CurvedLineVintage, Stockport, United KingdomCurvedLineVintage
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Add to basketSoft 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 phot…os.
Language: English
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.Reader's Corner, Inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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.). Rupert Smith DJ design (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph 1961, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United KingdomFoster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 orig…inal colour dustjacket, which is not price clipped. Small 8vo.
Published by Joseph, GB, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. 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.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United KingdomAlexander's Books
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Add to basketHardback. 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.
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Book Bungalow, Edinburgh, United KingdomBook Bungalow
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Add to basketHard 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.
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Published by Michael Joseph, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United KingdomHugh Hardinge Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
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Published by Michael Joseph Ltd., 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Westmoor Books, Bedale, United KingdomWestmoor Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 t…ips.DJ has some light shelf wear.
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Published by Michael Joseph, UK, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United KingdomLasting Words Ltd
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Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 243.02
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1961. Wyndham's collection of short fiction. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234.
Published by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.Heartwood Books and Art
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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 b…ook 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 $3.00 price unclipped. Mylar cover.
Published by Macmillan Canada, Toronto, 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, CanadaPurpora Books
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in green cloth with ant shape stamped in gilt on upper board and gilt titles on spine. Cloth faded on spine and external joints, owner name and date on front paste down and a 3/4" tear (nicely repaired) on fore edge of front free endpap…er; dust jacket has some edge wear (short tears and rubs), rear panel is shelf rubbed and darkened and the rear flap is darkened along the top, side and bottom edges. Last published novel, an science fiction satire, of this German-born Canadian author.
Published by London: Michael Joseph, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Mild offset tanning to endpapers, NEAR FINE in dust wrapper with darkening to white rear panel, minor edge wear, shadow to blank side at spine hide where an old bit of tape fell away.
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
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US$ 180.53
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket. The mature Wyndham in short form, led by the novella that first appeared sandwiched between Golding and Peake in Sometime, Never (1956) and here gives its name to the collection: a… woman wakes in a future without men, the male half of the species eliminated by an escaped virus; her amnesia making her the reader's guide to a society of castes and functions that works perfectly well, which is precisely the problem. Jacket with just a touch of rubbing to extremities, but really a very good copy. Jacket design by Rupert Smith. (illustrator). Book.
Published by Michael Joseph [1961], London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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 America…n 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).
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United KingdomMacKellar Art & Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 stampps or inscriptions. An anthology of the writings of John Wyndham, containing three novellas and thre…e short stories.Containing 'Consider Her Ways', 'Odd', 'Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty?', 'A Stitch in Time', 'Random Quest', and 'A Long Spoon.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, CanadaThe Scribe Bookstore, ABAC
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Some edge wear to dust jacket and head and heel of jacket spine. Minor loss to jacket corners and head and heel of jacket spine. A few short closed tears to jacket and age toning to rear jacket cover. Price on jacket flap is unclipp…ed. Some offsetting to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Hinges starting to front. Minor edge wear to hardcover boards and head and heel of spine. Age toning and some foxing to text block. Otherwise, a sharp copy. Pages are clean. Book comes in protective mylar.
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, United KingdomTom W. Ayling
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Add to basketFirst 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.
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A verty smart first edition of this anthology by Science Fiction author, John Wyndham; in the original dust wrapper. A smart, first edition copy of this anthology of short stories by John Wyndham. Consider Her Ways was originally publishe…d in 1956 as part of another anthology, here forming the centre piece of this collection alongside five additional works; Odd, Oh, Where Now Is Peggy MacRafferty?A Stitch in Time,Random Quest, andA Long Spoon. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding with the original price clipped dust wrapper. Wyndham is best known for apocalyptic landscapes and distorting, science fiction narratives. His notable works include; The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding with the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with only minor edge wear. A single ink inscription to front free with light offsetting. Dust wrapper, excellent. Faint age toning to rear wrap. Slight creasing to lower spine and the very odd minor closed tear to extremity of rear wrap. Internally, generally firmly bound with minor split to gutter at half title. Slight dusting to top edge. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned. Very Good Indeed. Ruper Smith (illustrator). book.
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. 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 col…lection 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. None (illustrator). book.
Published by London: Michael Joseph (1961)., 1961
- First Edition
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1961
- First Edition
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. 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.
Published by Michael Joseph, London., 1961
- First Edition
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United KingdomPeter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketFirst edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Six stories, all but the title story appearing here for the first time.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper.
