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Published by Heinemann, 1996
ISBN 10: 0435124609ISBN 13: 9780435124601
Seller: Bookstar Bookstore, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Some slight cover wear only or slight curl on covers + some shelf wear. Has stamps in front and back of book. Cover is silhouette figure on green hill with huge bird in Centre.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Howe, David (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has a minor skew to the binding, and very mild wear to the spine ends and cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has a hint of wear to the cover edges and corners. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
Published by Folio Society, 2017
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New and unread copy of Barry Hines' masterpiece.
Published by Folio Society,, 2017
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured title-spread and 11 monochrome illustrations in the text; pictorial grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, decorative endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped glassine dustwrapper. The basis of Ken Loach's memorable feature film 'Kes' (1970). VERY SCARCE.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1968
Seller: Quality Used Books, Pickering, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small tears at the top and wear at bottom of spine. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with silver spine lettering. A Very good copy. Slight browning of page edges and scuff at bottom of spine. Not price clipped.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1968
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with silver spine lettering. A VG+ copy (very slight spine fade and a hint of foxing to the page block edges in like price-clipped D/W with none of the usual fading to the brown portion of the spine its only noteworthy fault being a chip from the top/middle of the back panel. No inscriptions. Still a nice copy of an iconic 60's cult novel and scarce in this condition. [The basis for the 1969 movie, Kes, directed by Ken Loach and starring David Bradley, the late Brian Glover and Colin Welland. A true classic of post-war British cinema with its pertinent and fiercely unsentimental portrait of Northern working-class life and its almost incomprehensible Northern dialect. Everyone remembers the famous football sequence with the late Brian Glover hilariously impersonating Bobby Charlton]. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1968
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK edition. Publisher's blue boards with silver lettering to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A lovely, bright and clean near fine copy with NO inscriptions. The dustwrapper is also a near fine example and is priced at 25s net to the inside flap. The dustwrapper is complete with very slight fading to the spine (the brown portion now dark green). A very nice copy indeed. Barry Hines's acclaimed 60's novel with its powerful wonderfully raw picture of Northern a story of survival in a tough, joyless world. It is bleak and gritty and written extremely well. Billy Casper is one of life's underdogs. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1968
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression (Michael Joseph, 1968). Signed by the author and Ken Loach - who directed the film adaptation - to bookplates affixed to the title page. Original blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. A near fine book with a little toning to edges in a better than very good, unclipped dust jacket that has some rubbing to spine foot and fore-edges. An excellent copy. Signed by Author(s).