Junction by Dunn, First Edition (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. paperback, illustrated, 30 pages, small tear to cover without loss otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 266.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback, slight rubbing and soiling to wraps, no fading, creasing or tears. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated, clean copy internally with little reading wear. May require additional postage outside the UK.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good or better in wrappers, a paperback. Sticker on front cover. Corners slightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Drawings by Susan Benson. Fine in a very good dust jacket with creased tears, and light soiling on the rear panel. Author's first book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers in plastic ring binding. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The author's first book. Drawings by Susan Benson. First American edition. Fine in a near fine (small ink stain to rear panel) dust jacket.

18.5x12.5cm. Soft cover. First edition. pp(4)30(2) with monochrome photo & other plates. Orange card wrappers with flaps, titled etc in black. A little wear at foot of backstrip, one or two minor grazes elsewheres. Previous owner's name on front flap and at upper edge of title-page. GOOD+ copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition.

Paperback. first edition. U-5098 almost near fine Ballantine MOD book. paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback binding, very good 1st edition, minor ageing top front, spine very good. Contents look unread as very tight, very good, a little very minor ageing, illustrated with maps, table and black/photographs Size: 12.5 x 18.5cm Approx.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing, True first with no reprint statement on the copyright page . Original priced jacket is not price clipped, fade to spine, staining to rear. Internally clean pages, offsetting to end pages, name to front end page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. susan benson (illustrator). 1st Edition. NY: Ballantine U Series. Ballantine Books, Inc., MOD book 1967 first edition First Printing stated U-5098. Bright bright yellow publisher's topstain all around. No creases or tears or unwanted marks. "Set in 1960s Battersea, Up the Junction is a collection of short stories which explores the lives of three women - Rube, Lily and Sylvie - who work in a sweet factory by day, and paint the town red by night. Originally published as a series of articles in the New Statesman, the present collection features such stories as Bang on the Common, Out with the Boys and Death of an Old Scrubber, and was noted at the time for its use of colloquial slang, as well as its frank and often graphic depictions of sex, thievery and back street abortion, relatively controversial and unexplored topics for the time.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Susan Benson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st impression, no owner's name or other inscription, not price clipped (12s 6d net), page ends age toned with some spotting, heavy spotting to fep and rep, D/j spine has loss to head and base, D/j has heavy shelf wear at extremities and is grubby to rear with spotting to flaps, D/j now protected by a clear removable sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped and the boom is without any former names or inscriptions present.Binding is firm with no hinge weakness.Uncommon title and a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction.Light spotting to the page edges and to the endpapers,First Edition 1st Impression 8vo 110pp.

Vg. no dj. dark blue hardcovers. no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, showing a hint of age-tanning but no foxing or blemishes - overall a vg clean copy. 2nd impression of the 1st edition published in november of the same year.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. Drawings by Susan Benson. Previous owner's inscription on flyleaf. D/w worn along edges.Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Octavo, illustrations by Susan Benson, boards. First edition. The author's first book. A series of gritty, naturalistic reminiscences of working class London, later made into a film. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing at edges of front panel, some dust soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. (#119435).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. 12mo. (2) + 30pp. Publisher's brown soft card covers, black lettering + cartouche on front, black letteringon spine. Labels for " SMJ Rly Peterborough " + " E & W J Rly King's Norton " + + E & W J Rly Byfield " + " Midland Towcaster Broom " stuck in as frontis. Covers : rub along spine but spine intact, slight rubs corners else clean & unchipped. Contents : foxing to prelims& trails, slight foxing to contents else clean & tight. Clean tight copy with foxing. VG-.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Susan Benson (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from Nell Dunn. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of short stories that depict contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Written by Nell Dunn, an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Illustrated by Susan Benson, a British artist and illustrator. In the original blue paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrated by Susan Benson, minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, original dust-jacket using a photograph by Tina Tranter, extremities slightly rubbed, minor soiling to back panel, else a lovely copy without the usual fading to spine. A lovely copy of Dunn's famous Battersea sketches, which Ken Loach made into a film of the same name in 1965.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Susan Benson (illustrator). First edition. A first edition, first impression copy of this collection of short stories by Nell Dunn. A first edition, first impression copy.Up The Junction is a collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction. Her writing is deft and observant, catching idioms and turns of phrase with expertise.Nell Dunn is an English playwright, screenwriter and author.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some fading to the wraps and light chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1963 MacGibbon & Kee hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Fine clean tight binding in near fine unclipped dustjacket.With drawings by Susan Benson.

First Edition. [Short Stories] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.110 [2]. Publisher's light green paper covers titled to upper. Quite heavily browned, especially to margins. Covers browned to spine and margins. A delicate production, rare thus. Near fine. Having started out as a series of autobiographical stories by writer Nell Dunn dealing with working class life in south London, 'Up the Junction' made the transition to television docu-drama, and eventually the big screen, starring Dennis Waterman and Maureen Lipman, with a memorable soundtrack by Manfred Mann. At the time, 'Up the Junction' was highly controversial and its depiction of abortion had a major impact, contributing to the national debate which led to the legalisation of abortion in 1967.

1st Edition. 110 pages. 1st edition. Near fine hardback covers in a near fine pictorial dust jacket Internally fine. Exceptionally signed by the author on card on the front free endpaper. Scarce Nell Dunn signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by MacGibbon & Kee, London in 1963. 8vo., dark blue boards, gilt to spine; photographic pink and black wrapper by Tina Tranter (12s 6d net); illustrated with line drawings throughout by Susan Benson; The BOOK is in near Fine condition, lightly pushed at the spine ends and faintly offset to end-papers ; previous ownership name neatly inked to the upper front paste-down; the Very Good+ WRAPPER creased and rubbed along folds, with some staining and dark splash marks to the lower panel; spine tips with some heavier creases, and a couple of nicks; evidence of toning to verso. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The first edition of the author's debut work, signed 'Nell Dunn' to the title page, and dated in the year of publication. Set in 1960s Battersea, Up the Junction is a collection of short stories which explores the lives of three women - Rube, Lily and Sylvie - who work in a sweet factory by day, and paint the town red by night. Originally published as a series of articles in the New Statesman, the present collection features such stories as Bang on the Common, Out with the Boys and Death of an Old Scrubber, and was noted at the time for its use of colloquial slang, as well as its frank and often graphic depictions of sex, thievery and back street abortion, relatively controversial and unexplored topics for the time. The book won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in the year of publication, a prize given to an author aged 35 years or younger, with Dunn just 27 when it was released. Her candid depictions of 'clip-joint hustles, candid sexual encounters, casual birth and casual death' saw her achieve a certain degree of fame, and the work was followed in 1967 by her first full-length novel, 'Poor Cow'. In 1968, the book was adapted into a popular film with a soundtrack by Manfred Mann. The band 'Squeeze' later used the title for their 1979 hit, with its opening line also portraying life in Battersea ("I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham"). "She loved the energy she found up The Junction, the vitality, the lack of pretension" one reviewer writes, with the New Statesmen also claiming that she"rework[ed] a national literary tradition, the love affair between the classes." Scarce signed. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's dark blue boards with gilt spine lettering. Pale offsetting to both the front and rear end-papers and a touch of foxing to the top edge otherwise VG indeed in like D/W rubbed to the spine tips but with NO TONING to the front panel's pink edges (a frequent flaw) and with very light handling marks to the back panel. FLAT-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE END-PAPER. This book was signed at a screening of "Poor Cow" together with Screentalk (between Nell Dunn and Terence Stamp) held at the Barbican cinema on June 23, 2016. Laid in are the flyer and the cinema ticket from the event. An exceedingly uncommon book to find signed. "Up the Junction" is generally considered to be Nell Dunn's best and most influential early work. The basis for the 1968 movie of the same name directed by Peter Collinson starring Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman and Maureen Lipman. The author's first publication - a series of short stories written at the age of 26. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

First US edition. 8vo. Original quarter red cloth, blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket. Philadelphia, Lippincott. The author's first published book, a collection of short stories taken from her life in Battersea. A near fine copy, light wear to extremities of jacket.

A first edition, first printing of 'Up The Junction' published by Macgibbon Kee in 1963. A near fine book - inscribed on the front free endpaper by the Author - 'For Christopher/With my love/Nell'. In the near fine unclipped wrapper - a touch rubbed to the corners. Christopher Jeremy Sandford was Nell Dunn's first husband from 1957 to 1979.