Seven Five by H E Bates: First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 454 pages. (SL#285).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content has toning. Previous owner name to ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear and tears.

Octavo, 454 pp., cloth. First edition. A selection of thirty-five stories written over the period 1926-1961, representative of the work of this master of the short story, with an interesting preface by the iconoclastic Henry Miller. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a few short edge tears internally mended with archival tape. (#135310).…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edgeworn and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges lightly foxed; prelims with a small stain to the outer margin. Remains well-preserved overall, with main text block strong and clean. Physical description; 454 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; With a preface by Henry Miller. Short stories. Fiction. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edgeworn and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges lightly foxed; prelims with a small stain to the outer margin. Remains well-preserved overall, with main text block strong and clean. Physical description; 454 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; With a preface by Henry Miller. Short stories. Fiction. 1 Kg. …

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and blind 7 x 5 to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper has one small V shaped loss to the lower edge so best described as near fine condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The author said of this book "The earliest of these stories, The Flame, was first published in 1926, having been written a year earlier, when I was twenty; the latest appeared in 1961. The intervening thirty-five years, together with the thirty-five stories I have chosen from that period, therefore give the collection its title, Seven by Five. My aim has been to make the book as widely representative of my work as a short-story writer as possible, but I have nevertheless refrained from including any of the war-time stories I wrote under the pseudnym of Flying Officer X, any of the stories of Uncle Silas and novellas, since these all belong, in my view, to quite separate categories". This collection has an introduction from Henry Miller. Ref YY 7.…

8°. 454 S. OPbd. mit OU. Erste Ausgabe.- Schutzumschlag vorderseitig am oberen Rand mit zwei minimalen Läsuren u.am Rücken oben mit kl. Einriss (ca. 2 cm), sonst sehr gutes Exemplar.

First Edition. 1st edition, 1963. Preface by Henry Miller. Gift inscription on front free end paper; text clean; binding tight; price-clipped dust jacket worn at edges, with small loss Used - Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1963. Michael Joseph. First Edition. Very Good Condition + book in similar grade price clipped cover. Several nicks to edges, now protected by removable archival cover. No inscriptions.