Question Box, First Edition (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st/1st. DJ has tears and shows considerable wear, store sticker on back, but copy clean and tight. Novel for adolescent readers about a ninth grader and her over-protective father.

Condition: (fair). / Cardinal Spellman, preface by / foreword by Fr John A. Carr, CSP / 1962 [3rd edition revised/1903 1st edition] 463 pages paperback.

Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). / Cardinal Spellman, preface by / foreword by Fr John A. Carr, CSP / 1962 [3rd edition revised/1903 1st edition] 463 pages paperback.

Trade Size Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages; Trade Size Paperback, Book Shows Little Wear, Text is clean no markings seen , No Dust Jacket; BX281.

/ Cardinal Hayes, preface to new edition / Cardinal Gibbons, preface to old edition / 1929 [2nd edition revised/1903 1st edition] 467 pages rebound binding (fair) pages (good).

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Used-Good/Used-Good. Color Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. Used-Good/Used-Good. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 48 pp., DJ clipped, edges toning, writing on ffe .

Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). / Cardinal Hayes, preface to new edition / Cardinal Gibbons, preface to old edition / 1929 [2nd edition revised/1903 1st edition] 467 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Zemach, Margot (illustrator). Stated First Edition / First Printing. Cloth hardback. Light erasure mark on front end paper, else FLAWLESS in price-clipped jacket with scuffed points. Illustrated by Margot Zemach.

1st edition. Small 24mo. 7.5 x 10.3cm. Original red paper coveredcard box with lid, yellow & bw lettering + 2 sample blue cards with hatched freeze around edges on top. 40 cards complete, burgundy + lilac + yellow + pale blue + red suits, social party question on each card " When will someone throw themselves into my arms? ", yellow backs with square corners. Large rules sheet folded twice. Box : very slight rub bas e corner else very clean & bright. Contents : very slight dust to occasional cards else very clean with sharp corners. Rules : very clean. Bright attractive copy. F-/VG+/VG+ box & cards & rules.

1st edition. 12mo. 19 x 13.4cm. Red paper covered box with lid,colour 3 people playing game spinning disc + black lettering on top, largerecessed compartment for disc + 3 smaller for cards. 10 cm green rotating tin disc on spindle from yellow base, view hole in disc to reveal letter under. Numerous white cards with blue questions. Instructions under lid. Box : slight 3cm crimp to top, slight browning to top, slight rubsto corners else clean & good shape. Spinner : slight rust to 3cm of base edge else very clean. Clean set with unscuffed spinner. VG/VG+/F- box & spinner & cards.

Condition: Very Good ++. Jacket Condition: . Ultra rare proof copy. 124 x 185cm, 230pp. Publisher's original buff paper wraps with titles and "PROOF COPY" to the front cover and titles and publisher's windmill device to the spine, 230pp. The wraps have been printed on the verso of an unused illustration from a previous Heinemann book, Dog Days by K F Barker, so that parts of a bull terrier in full colour can be seen on the inside of the covers. The verso of the title page states "First Published 1950 - there is a pencil note on the front cover "Sept 30/[19?]50" - though the First Edition was not published until 22nd January 1951 in an edition of 7,500 copies. It is housed in a bespoke, black cloth solander (clamshell) box with gilt titles and lined with marbled paper. There are a few very light marks on the front cover, a very small 3 x 2mm chip near the top of its fore edge, a 3mm open tear at the top of the upper joint and one of 1cm at the foot of the same. The back cover has a toned 1.5cm wide band running adjacent to the spine and of 0.5mm along the top edge, as well as some spotting and very light soiling. The spine is uniformly toned with the aforementioned band on the rear panel. The binding is very firm and completely square. Internally, there is no name or inscription and the pages are very clean and fresh, noting a 1mm closed tear and crease at the fore edge of page 7/8. Over all a very good ++ copy. Somewhat bizarrely, this book conforms to the "second state" of the first edition, having the additional half-title page preceding the text stating "THE MUSIC OF TIME / *". Powell states in the third paragraph of page 215 of "Faces in My Time", volume 3 of his memoirs, the following: 'A small bibliographical point may be recorded regarding the 'prelims' of A Question of Upbringing (1951)'. It was my intention that an additional half-title, indicating the name of the whole sequence, The Music of Time (followed by the number of asterisks denoting the number of the volume), should appear on the page preceding that opening the narrative. After I had passed proofs some over-enthusiastic supervisor altered this sub-heading to A Question of Upbringing, already used on the first page as half-title. This was soon put right, so that a 'first state' exists in the first edition.' Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.