Slanting Light by Gerda Charles (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First American Edition. Good in good DJ. DJ is not price clipped; small tears and a larger chip at the head of the spine; some sort of sticker on the spines, which could be a library sticker, although there are no other stamps or stickers typical of ex-library books, so I'm not sure. Blue cloth binding is a bit faded along the top edge. Top stain was probably once a prettier color (we were all prettier 60 years ago).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. 338 pp. Jacket has a few chips and closed tears; removed price tag still shows on front of jacket. Cover is sunned on upper and lower edges, and on spine. A novel of an estranged couple, in the form of letters between them.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; 338 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. An acclaimed French novel of an estranged Jewish wife which Antony Burgess called "technically near faultless." Book is fine. The splendid George Salter jacket is near fine with only a 1/4" tear at the top of the front foreedge, protected by a plastic cover.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition. New York: Knopf, 1963. 8vo. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 338 pp. Jacket design by George Salter. Charles' third novel. Dustjacket has chipping and tears on edges. Ends of pages foxed. Rub on bottom right where price tag probably was placed. Repaired and protected by mylar jacket. This novel, called technically "near-flawless" by Anthony Burgess in The Observer, followed The True Voice and The Crossing Point. A Slanting Light won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction (Scottish Arts Council). Charles also won the Whitbread Award in 1971 for The Destiny Waltz. Good in fair dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.…

Condition: VG. NY 1963 first American edition (stated) Knopf. Hardcover octavo. 338p. Blue cloth boards with gilt and silver labelling. VG+. slight fading of cover cloth, no other faults, binding secure; text clean, hinges not cracked. in VG dj , light wear; one inchlong taped (on verso) tear, price not clipped ($4.95). A novel of ideas, especially strong on characterization. Recommended reading.…