Faces Water: First Edition (31 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Clean Tight And Square. Little Shelf Wear To Jacket Edges And Corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. A tight, square copy with a previous owner sticker under the front flap in a fine dust jacket with slight rubbing at the base of the spine.

Hard cover. First edition. HCDJ, 1999. First edition. . Very good in very good dust jacket. 400 p. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Overlook Press, Woodstock, 1998, Hardcover First Edition/First Printing with a complete numberline. Book Condition: Fine as New and unread - one tiny issue: a miniscule partial crease at the corner or two pages - the thickness of a pin.otherwise a New copy, tight and unread. Dustjacket is price clipped and has a tiny ding at the rear corner, otherwise Fine and comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Overlook Books, New York, 1998, Hardcover, First Edition, first printing, full number line. Book Condition: very slight bump to bottom spine otherwise Fine unread as new, in fine clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Her first professional sale came from "Eustace," a ninety-word vignette at the age of 21 in 1968. She continued to work in various jobs for almost another decade, due to rejection of her books. Her first novel (for children) was The Dragon Hoard, published in 1971 by Macmillan. Her career really took off with the acceptance in 1975 by DAW Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave a mass-market paperback. Many British publishers rejected The Birthgrave thus she wrote to DAW Books. Lee subsequently maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing. The Birthgrave allowed Lee to be a full-time writer and stop doing "stupid and soul-killing jobs." During the 90's her books were not published due to the changes in publishing. The style that made her whole career met strict objections from publishers at that time. " (from Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has light shelfwear to the head and heel of the spine, jacket has light wear to the corners, else clean and tight. First book in the Secret Books of Venus quartet. First edition, first printing. 288 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. first printing. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.

Octavo, two-part boards. First U.S. edition. First book of "The Secret Books of Paradys" tetralogy. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#160534).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition hardcover signed by Lee to the title page. Spine ends gently pushed else fine condition in like DJ in mylar. ; Secret Books Of Venus, Book 1; 127 X 25.4 X 203.2 millimeters; 288 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition. Slight softening to spine ends. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Volume one in The Secret Books of Venus series. ; Octavo.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback. Very good. Slightly yellowing.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 254p. ill.; 24cm. Notes: Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, vol. 65, part 3.Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Thomas Bewick and the Natural History Society: a preface, by David Gardner-Medwin; The many faces of Bewick: an illustrated catalogue of the portraiture of Thomas Bewick, his family and apprentices, by June Holmes; The bicentenary of Thomas Bewick's History of british birds, by David Gardner-Medwin. Subjects: Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828. History of British birds.Wood-engravers Great Britain; Biography.Illustrators Great Britain; Biography. Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828 Portrait. Genre:Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition of the authors third published book, and second novel. The book was first published in the UK in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1962, and originally in New Zealand by Pegasus Press in 1961. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card covers, which are just very slightly rubbed at the edges. No creases or tears. No reading creases to the spine. Covers clean and bright. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Paper stock just slightly tanned. No tears. ***254 pages. 196mm x 126mm. ***'Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film "An Angel at My Table" (1990), directed by Jane Campion.' (Wiki) ***'Like the late Jean Rhys, this remarkable New Zealand novelist has built up a reputation that fair dazzles, and deservedly so' (Publishers weekly). ***'"Faces in the Water" is about confinement in mental institutions, about the fear the sane have of the mad and the ways in which that fear transforms into banishment and punishment of those whose reaction to a truly cruel and insane world is to move into a world which is self-created.' (Quote and review quote taken from the back cover) ***First UK paperback edition of Janet Frame's second novel. An uncommon title to find now in the first Women's Press first printing. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 254p. ill.; 24cm. Notes: Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, vol. 65, part 3.Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Thomas Bewick and the Natural History Society: a preface, by David Gardner-Medwin; The many faces of Bewick: an illustrated catalogue of the portraiture of Thomas Bewick, his family and apprentices, by June Holmes; The bicentenary of Thomas Bewick's History of british birds, by David Gardner-Medwin. Subjects: Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828. History of British birds.Wood-engravers Great Britain; Biography.Illustrators Great Britain; Biography. Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828 Portrait. Genre:Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

first edition 224pp ills.[b/w and col.] VERY GOOD+ (blue cloth,v.sl.wear to extrems.,eps and content edges sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Woodstock and New York, very good first edition in very good dj.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Estina is the lead character in this 256 page work of fiction. She is a resident in a mental hospital in Cliffhaven. The story line is the apparently disjointed images and ideas that flow through this patient's mind. Read more about Picture Night, Matron Glass, Esme, and Bertha. Cond : White cover, black lettering. Front cover graphic is of the partly conceived face as suggested by the title. Bottom edge lightly chipped, pages yellowing. Binding tight, not sun-faded. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Excellent readinmg copy. Quote (p. 59) : " My family had not visited me often. They seemed to me strange and remote, and sometimes when I glanced quickly at my mother and father I surprised their bodies falling apart and ._._._. .".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; 167 clean, unmarked pages; a couple of light foxing spots on top edge. Ruth Sanderson Dj Art (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 240mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). 126pp. B/w and colour illustrations. Illustrated laminated softback card cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 254pp. Dark Gray patterned boards, Bright blue spine, yellow/green lettering. Stated First printing, light rubs to the spine edges, othewise a like new copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has small chips on the bottom edge of the front panel.in mylar sleeve. "Drawing on the experiences of Janet Frame's early life, Faces in the Water is a harrowing account of life inside the walls of a New Zealand mental institution. The book follows protagonist, Istina Mavet, as she spends 10 years of her life being tossed from ward to ward, observing her fellow patients and living in fear of an ever-dreaded leucotomy. Journeying deep into the human psyche, Faces in the Water is Frame's means of revealing just how misunderstood mental illness was in the 1950s and posing the unanswerable question of what it is to be mad." Size: octavo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Book Two of The York Trilogy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner's signature. Spine faded and marked. Marking to boards. Spotting to page edges. Spotting to preliminary and final leaves.; 219 pages. Red papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 194mm x 128mm.; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. 218 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. M06492 9783700136675 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1330.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A unique Association Copy of the First Edition of this Gothic reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in an alternate, hedonistic 18th-century Venice. Inscribed to the title page. " To Rosemary Hawley Jarman - With all my love - Tanith " Splash ! 2000. Tanith and Rosemary were lifelong friends frequently living close to one another in the St Leonards area in East Sussex. Rosemary, herself a very successful and celebrated historical novelist wrote the introduction to Lee's 1986 Arkham House collection "Dreams of Dark & Light." Tanith had numerous pet names for her over the years and enclosed is an ALS employing one of them. It begins "Dear Flower, As you will have seen your postcard from my Hol. got posted in Sidcup (sigh) as my address book born with me so as to allow me to bombard all friends and relations with postcards - supplied only your 'phone number. This gift came from Fairford, a place of such amazingly benign vibes, I think anything from there must carry Good/God. Its antler - plus pewter. * Hope you like. All Fox love. *An educated guess at the gift would be a Pewter Tankard with a Stag Antler handle. An attractive one-off for the Fantasy Collector in superb condition. Signed by Author(s).…

dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 219pp. Light shelf-wear, with soil to lower rear cover, foxing to edges of textblock, bookshop stamp to front endpaper, and off-setting to endpapers; Good. Dustwrapper has foxing, with soil to lower rear panel and rear flap fold, and tiny tears to extremities; Good. Frame's novel explores a young girl's experience in New Zealand mental institutions. [84448].…

Hard Cover. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First UK. G+/VG-. 8vo. original red boards gilt (Ex-library with remains of labels, tape marks, RSMs etc to outer leaves and edges, rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & frayed, some marking); pp. 210 (last blank). A good copy.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Complete set of four linked novels, set in an alternate fantasy Venice at various times, involving the four alchemical elements, conspiracies & rivalries. All four volumes are stated first editions (first printings), with full number strings; hardcover in jacket, as pictured; dates & ISBNs of the later volumes are 1999, 0879317352; 2002, 1585672610; 2003, 1585674745. Light wear to books & jackets, near fine but for a minor bump to the base of volume one, one corner of volume four. Laid in to volume four is a publisher's press release for that book. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this heavy set may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote. Size: Octavo. Set. …