Devil Failed by Samuel Maurice (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Front and back hinges well connected. DJ sunned back cover. Interior Text Body has no inscription, no foxing, and no torn pages in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite wear only; unclipped price, in mylar; ownr's name/stamp; 4271 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A Good or better copy in black cloth lettered in gold, in a scuffed and lightly edge-worn Fair dust jacket. Mild tanning at the outer edges and endpapers, sound binding, clean/unmarked within. (Not ex-library.). Book.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover, 271 pages, previous owner's stamp on several pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Record # 4887.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First Edition. Fantastic fiction recalling Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." From Kirkus Reviews: "curious story of a professor who wakes to find he has become a giant, and discovers himself in the care of a demoniac Hungarian doctor and two unstable female nurses. The professor finally figures a way out of his predicament by recalling a scientific rule, but this doesn't happen until both reader and he have sweated it out through many an anxious page." Overall a nice and crisp copy, bottom edge of book shows sun fading. Some soil and light fading to jacket. 5.5 x 8.5 inches with 271 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1952. Hardcover. First edition "Half a thriller and half a parable.relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden castastrophe too big for ordinary life". 271+ pages, pictorial title page. Tuck [The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 377 "Modern Guilliver---a man wakes to find himself 13 feet tall and weighing 160 stone (about one metric ton)"]. Reginald 12666. Very good with 3/16" spot of abrasive wear to the top edge of the rear board, in Very Good Dust Wrapper with some toning, wear to the spine ends, and a few edge tears. See photos clph Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 269 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers and a stamp. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Gilt lettering is dulled. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily sunned. Stamp on front.

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine book in a near fine dust jacket , darker spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Dustjacket by George Salter. Dustjacket has a little wear and is spine darkened.

Condition: Good. 1953. No edition remarks. 271 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Archive copy. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over. Pencil to panels.

Condition: FINE. First printing. "The Ominous Adventure of a Twentieth-century Gulliver" - A novel described as "half a thriller and half a parable, which relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden catastrophe too big for ordinary life." The author was born in Romania, educated in England, and came to the US to live in 1914. 271 pp. Dustjacket by George Salter. Fine in black cloth with copper lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some minor edgewear, spine slightly toned).

FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. D.J. ART BY GEORGE SALTER BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS A TINY CHIP AT THE TOP OF LIGHTLY SUNNED SPINE PANEL, A TINY TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE REAR SLIGHTLY TANNED REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). 272 pages: ''the ominous adventure of a 20th-century Gulliver''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket included. First edition. First Edition. Fine cloth, in slightly chipped dustwrapper. Frontispiece illustrates the trapped giant. Fantasy of a man who wakes from a coma to discover he has grown to gigantic proportions and is kept prisoner by a cruelly experimenting doctor and a perversely lustful nurse. Sinister and comical, it probably gave Rod Serling the idea for a classic Twilight Zone episode starring Mickey Rooney. The author was a Roumanian Jew who emigrated to France, then England, and finally America. He became a noted historian with many non-ficiton titles to his credit, but also a handful of novels.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Kafkaesque dark fantasy satire, half a thriller and half a parable, of the experiences of a modern Gulliver afflicted with "delayed gigantism" whose height increases to thirteen feet and who weighs some 2200 pounds. Maurice Samuel (1895-1972) was a Romanian-born journalist, translator and lecturer, educated in England. In 1914 he left England and became a permanent resident of the United States. Reginald 12666. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#4420).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf (1952). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free. 0.0.