Johnno, First Edition (30 results)

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Acclaimed Australian author's first novel. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A nicer than usual copy with no fading to the orange lettering on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Headline, London, 2004 First edition pictorial hardback. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, MARTIN JOHNSON. Inscription reads, 'To Amy and Alex" All The Best!/Martin Johnson'. 96 pages Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Has the odd very fine surface tare to the odd page Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Tracked. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Headline, London, 2004 First edition pictorial hardback. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY Ben Kay English international rugby union footballer Inscription reads, 'To Amy and Alex" Lots of Love!/Ben Kay'. 96 pages Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Tracked. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. Reprint. Bound in white cloth (some minor spotting) in matching dust jacket. This is considered the "Collector's Copy" by the publisher -- published 14 years after the original edition. 170 pp.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 322p, yellowed paper. Owner's name on front page. Crease to bottom corner of front cover, clean text, no crease to spine. ; 8vo.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. NrF. First Edition, First Printing. No d/w, (as published). Glazed pictorial covers. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, MARTIN JOHNSON. Inscription reads, 'To -----/All The Best!/Martin Johnson'. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. A photographic record of the career of Martin Johnson. TOGETHER WITH A FINE COPY OF A SEPARATE 20 PAGE PAPERBACK PUBLICATION 'One Of A Kind.An Evening With Martin Johnson'. Held on 21st April at the Old Billingsgate, London in his Testimonial Year. A near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY MARTIN JOHNSON, TOGETHER WITH A SCARCE PAPERBACK PUBLICATION PUBLISHED IN MARTIN'S TESTIMONIAL YEAR. Presentation Copy Inscribed & Signed.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Robin Swanney Macpherson (illustrator). First Edition. Number 48 of 150 copies. Published post humously as Author was lost at sea so no Volume 2 was written. CONDITION Yellow stapled card wraps, 60 pages with name inside front. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1st U.S. edition Fine/fine (the red orange title on the dj spine is a bit lightened).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover in good condition. Unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. From the private collection of Dame Carmen Callil, publisher, writer, critic and founder of Virago Press with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Jacket is scuffed and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including small tears and a large chip to the front upper edge. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block is lightly blemished. Hinge break and tear along the join at the front board, however binding remains intact, and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Brown boards with lettering on the spine. Head and tail of boards, including spine, are well rubbed and faded. Covers are showing some heavy wear and tear. Binding is neat and tidy. Pages are thumbed and bear some light discolouration. Edges are moderately discoloured, else this book is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

First Edition, 1978. First American Edition. Very Fine hardcover copy in dark blue textured paper covered boards, in dark blue and day-glo orange dustwrapper, not price-clipped, as new. 170pp. Novel, the Author's first novel published in America.

HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION. AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1975 BY UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN A BLACK REMAINDER MARK ON THE BOTTOM EDGE AND VERY SLIGHT CRUSH AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE. D.J. IS ALSO ABOUT FINE WITH A SLIGHT CREASE TO THE FRONT FOLD, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY. A SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TALE OF GROWING UP IN BRISBANE IN THE 1940s AND '50s BY THE 1991 WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Paperback first edition, first printing, in very good+ condition - mild edge wear; pages tanning. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR BRAD JOHNSON ON TITLE PAGE: 'TO BLAKE, KEEP BARKING, ALL THE VERY BEST, BRAD JOHNSON, ENJOY!'. THE NUMBER '6' HAS BEEN WORKED INTO HIS SIGNATURE. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The first American edition of his first novel, originally published in Australia in 1975. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities. Jacket rubbed at edges, spine sunned, small chip to head of spine panel, one corner worn; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Edges foxed. Boards rubbed at extremities. Jacket rubbed at edges, spine sunned, small chip to rear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages.

hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Jacket design Ted Poulter (illustrator). 1st Edition of David Malouf's classic novel set in wartime Brisbane and focussing on the relationship between the narrator and Johnno; brown cloth boards with orange and white titling to spine, coloured endpapers; mild toning to text block, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper sunned to spine and rear panel, 2x2cm loss to head of spine, minor loss top rear edge, small ink stain lower spine, o.w. G-VG. Dustwrapper. 170pp. 8vo. Very Good.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. first American edition - first novel - a few tiny flecks of foxing at fore-edge else fine in fine p/c dj - very fresh bright copy . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 210x140x20mm+339g . . University of Queensland Press. St Lucia Q. 1975. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp170 Brown cloth hard boards with white and orange lettering to spine, in original dust jacket, unclipped. Tan endpapers. Book has shelf wera to bottom edges. Jacket has small loss to base of spine. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20.

First edition thus (25th Anniversary edition, of the novel's publication in 1974, and also to commemorate the 50th anniversary of University of Queensland Press). Signed (inscribed) by the author. Hardcover. Small octavo. Fine in fine dustjacket. A handsome little edition of an Australian classic, a coming-of-age novel. This edition has an informative 9 page introduction to the writing of the book by Malouf, and this copy is inscribed on the title-page: "To R____/ David Malouf/ with best wishes/ 24.3.99".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 210x140x17mm+339g . . University of Queensland Press. St Lucia Q. 1975. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp170. Dark Brown Hard boards with orange and white lettering to spine. In original dust jacket. unclipped. Shelf wear to board edges. Jacket - spine slight fading, closed tear, slight roll to top edge, jacket design by Ted Poulter, Scarce First Edition 1st Printing. Suicide victims: Suburban life: Young men: Brisbane (Qld): Fiction; General. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing, University of Queensland Press. Flat Signed and inscribed by Malouf on title page. "David Malouf. for David Anderson at Webben, Sept '84" Previous owners name and date neatly to top of first page cover.Book is in Fine condition with minor shelf wear to extremities of spine only. Text is bright and clean throughout. Dust Jacket also fine in protective cover. Possibly some minor sunning to spine. A very lovely copy. Signed by Author.

First Edition. Hardcover. A hybrid copy, using the Australian first edition but with George Braziller stickers on the title and copyright pages. Likely, a file copy from the publisher used prior to their printing. A very good copy in cloth boards with some minor wear. No dust jacket. Certainly, a very interesting copy.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket Very Good octavo 170pp., Edge-wear to boards & some uneven sunning to dust jacket o/w a very good copy.

First Edition. JOHNNO, Braziller, 1978, first American edition, fine in like dust-wrapper.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED in full & briefly INSCRIBED by the author & football star in black marker on title page: "To Brian, All the very best. Brad Johnson. Enjoy!". Johnson has also added his number "6" to the signature. This copy also includes laid-in ORIGINAL FLYER from the bookshop of the signing, which notes: "Come & meet Brad Johnson at Angus & Robertson, Bourke Street, Friday 1 October 12:30pm. Come and get your copy of Johnno personally signed by Bulldog great Brad Johnson". Also includes laid-in ORIGINAL RECEIPT for the book from the same Angus & Robertson bookshop, dated 2 days before the signing in 2010. See photographs. Illustrated with colour and b&w photographs. Includes statistics & acknowledgements. From rear cover: "A true son of the west, Brad Johnson became the Bulldogs' captain and games record-holder, his talent, resilience, leadership and trademark grin cementing his place in club history and supporters' hearts. This is the story of the Bulldogs' past two turbulent decades, seen through the eyes of the 'Smiling Assassin'". First printing, with "1" as the lowest number in print number line on copyright page. Printed in Australia. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 282pp. Scarce SIGNED copy with laid in flyer. RARE. SB-14. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Braziller, (1979). First American Edition. Fine. His first novel, autographed by Malouf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 170 p. 22 cm. Brown hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Mild stain on text block edge. Small mark on p. 19-20. Jacket spine a bit faded. Malouf's semi-autobiographical first novel was was selected by the Brisbane City Council in 2004 as the joint-winner of the annual "One Book One Brisbane" competition to find the book that best represents that city. His main characters, Dante and Johnno, are unlikely childhood friends growing up in the bustle of World War II-era Brisbane. In less than two-hundred pages, Malouf manages to capture the coming-of-age angst of the entire Australian post-war generation. A touching tale by Australia's most acclaimed contemporary writer.

First Edition. Pp. [vi]+170; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; top edges black; dust wrapper; George Braziller, New York, 1978. First U.S. edition.

First Edition. Pp. [viii]+170; post 8vo; burgundy boards, spine lettered in orange & white, edges of boars a trifle rubbed, with a couple of faint bruises; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1975. First edition. *The author's first novel, signed by him on the title page. Signed.