Peacemaker by Forester (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. As new. Spine, binding and covers unmarked and robust. Contents very clean with no inscription. Dustcover very good and in equally fine condition. 158 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First NEL Edition. G, Edgewear, creases, spine lean, remainder mark, dealer stamp & ink price, browning. Psychological drama. Photo on request.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Solid with light wear on the covers and a reading crease along the spine on the front cover. The previous owner's name is on the inside front cover in pencil which has been erased.

Illustrated Wrappers. Condition: Very Good +. Virgil Finlay, Etc. (illustrator). First Edition. A Very Bright Clean Copy, Only A Few Small Edge Chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback, 158 pp. Very Good condition in Very good price-clipped dust jacket No inscriptions.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st NEL printing, spine is creased, covers corner creased. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, label over name and address on front endpaper, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and rubbed at the edges. 158 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signet / New English Library 1970 Very Good/ New English Library. Printed 1969. Light wear to bright glossy cover, tight tanned pages.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Good. First Thus. First NEL edition, January 1969. Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. NOTE: A GOOD READING COPY ONLY. Handling wear, cocked, mild marginal toning, old tape reinforcement to all corners of cover & spine ends, otherwise a clean tight solid softcover reading copy. 158pp. SB-94.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

first edition thus 158pp NF (burgundy cloth,minor foxing to eps) in NF d/w (sl.sunned spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Good overall with some spotting to page edges and prelims, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, and slight knocks to corners. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bookplate. Spine very slightly faded, otherwise a very nice copy.

first edition 341pp VG- (green cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,spine sl.browned,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,amateur internal reinforcement to head/foot of spine,owner's bookplate to front pastedown,top board sl.shaky w.paper separation at half-title gutter,prelims.and edges sl.foxed w.some sl.foxing to contents,paper label remains to rear pastedown,spine cracked and cocked) lacks d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 19.5 x 13 cm. Octavo. 310pp. Bound into red cloth. First edition with "Published April, 1934" on copyright page. Spine is sun faded and has some light fraying at head and tail of spine. One corner bumped. Spine on front fixed endpaper. Some discoloration from tape residue to the endpapers. Previous owner's embossed stamp on half-title page and page 3. Forester's only work of science-fiction. References: Bloom, Anatomy of Wonder (2nd edition) 2-28. Wilden, C. S. Forester: A Bibliography 21b.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1934 1st edition 8vo., 341pp., small address label on rear endpaper, foxing on prelims., binding a little cocked, good, green cloth, worn on spine, no dust jacket.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Good. In goede staat. Paperback. Pocket. Vergeeld.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In red cloth with slight fading to cloth on spine. Small name stamp. Creasing to couple page edges. No jacket.

Condition: Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 341 pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Wear to edges of boards with very brief exposure to corners; spine ends nudged; general spotting and scuffing; spine toned. Binding sound. Foxing to fore-edge of text block; minor spotting to endpapers; moderate foxing to initial pages with a few spots and smudges throughout; overall a Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Text is clean. Red cloth with black lettering and cover illustration. Spine faded, ends lightly bumped. Previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Title page date is 1934. Top text edge stained. Forester's only work of Science Fiction. ; (Bloom, Who Should We Then Read 2, pg. 135-137) [Bleiler, 1978, p. 75; Ray, Fantastic Plots, conspiracies - Title only, not this edition] [Tuck - pg. 173].

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Good or better copy of this scarce, early work by Forester. First edition in original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Slight spine fade and trivial rubbing; very light page edge foxing; ownership inscr. to front eps but a perfectly sound internally clean copy.

First Edition. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.341; [3], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles. Contents clean, some light spotting to edges of text block, bookplate to pastedown, lacks front endpaper, cloth with light general wear. Very good.

Condition: near fine. 1st US Edition. 310pp. Octavo with orange cloth boards. Black lettering on front and spine, and black decoration on front. Spine lightly sun faded. Edges of spine have mild wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. near fine Forester's only science fiction novel that follows a shabby London schoolteacher and his invention that affects all of Britain.

First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original printed wrappers. Uncommon format for this early Forester title. Very Good in wrappers, some foxing to page edges.

red cloth, first edition, owner bookplate, otherwise no markings, jacket slightly worn at edges,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers a little toned, just about fine in spine-tanned, about very good dustwrapper with some shallow loss at the crown and a few small chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U. S. Edition. "Published April 1934" on copyright page. Jacket has $2.00 price and is essentially intact, save for a few small chips along the edges. It is tape reinforced on the inside at those edges and somewhat darkened on the spine and back panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "The Peacemaker" by C.S. Forester. London, William Heinemann, 1934, 1st UK edition first printing. orig. giltlettered green cl. w. dustwr. - Trifle/ sl. foxed. Cloth of backcover sl. spotted. Dustwr. in very good condition, slight toningt to spine fine. Very rare Forester novel in the orig. dustwrapper.

First edition. Octavo. [i-viii] 1-341 [342-344, blank], original green boards, spine stamped in gold. One of the major SF novels of the 1930's. "A bitterly ironic story about an ineffectual schoolmaster whose mathematical genius leads him to construct a machine which will demagnetize iron at a distance. He is led by unfortunate circumstance to use the machine in a hopeless attempt to blackmail England into initiating a program of disarmament." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-38. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-19; (1981) 2-28; (1987) 2-32; and (2004) II-413. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 65. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 305. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 46. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 259. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 75. Reginald 05518]. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a vertical crease and age darkening to the spine panel, slight wear at spine ends. An exceptional copy. (30753).

First Edition. THE PEACEMAKER, Little, Brown, 1934, first American edition, vg+ in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping.