Staying by Scott, Signed (9 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed & inscribed by author on front flyleaf, and signed again by author on title page; highlighting to one page, else pages clean; binding tight; minor wear to dustjacket. 203 pages. First edition, first printing. Size: 5 1/2" x 8". Signed by Author.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Likely signed by author Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9780807063415.

Paperback. 83p., personal inscription signed "Scott" by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Teen confessions, obsessions and case histories.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, near fine in very good dustwrapper, short tears on spine ends. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Signed by author on title page. [9780578785608] (Covid-19, Portrait Photography).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Signed UK 1st Edition. A n amazing copy of a super rare signed book. Correct first printing. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1977. Signed by the author directly on the title page. Also warmly inscribed and signed on the first end paper. One of the rarest Booker Prize winners to find signed - Paul Scott died only a few months after publication and very few copies are signed. A Very Good + book with no marks or writing. Small bump to top corner. Very Good + jacket. Not price clipped. A superb copy of an extremely rare signed book. This item will be sent with full insurance and tracking at no additional cost to the buyer. This book is from the Richard Alston collection of signed Booker Prize winners and nominees - see more details at Firsteds. We are listing one 'year' of signed Booker Prize nominated books every working day. You can set up a watch list at ABE or Firsteds.

Complete first edition set of "one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction" (The Times). Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional set. "Of those writers who have attempted to distill the last years of the British in India in fictional form, the most ambitious and the most successful is undoubtedly Mr. Paul Scott. One cannot read Paul Scott's quartet of novels without being moved; and what is the sense of studying history if it is not to move on and to widen one's moral sensibilities? His achievement is on any count a major one" (Max Beloff). āThe Quartetās form, tells us, in effect, that the history of the end of the Raj was largely composed of the doings of the officer class and its wife. Indians get walk-ons, but remain, for the most part, bit-players in their own history" (Salman Rushdie).

Complete first edition set of "one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction" (The Times). Octavo, five volumes, original cloth. Presentation copies, each volume inscribed by British actor Charles Dance who featured in the televised version of The Jewel in the Crown on the front free endpaper, "For Charles Swynnerton from Charles Dance!" Each volume is near fine in a very good to near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Larry Learmonth and Tom Simmonds. A very sharp set, uncommon signed. "Of those writers who have attempted to distill the last years of the British in India in fictional form, the most ambitious and the most successful is undoubtedly Mr. Paul Scott. One cannot read Paul Scott's quartet of novels without being moved; and what is the sense of studying history if it is not to move on and to widen one's moral sensibilities? His achievement is on any count a major one" (Max Beloff). āThe Quartetās form, tells us, in effect, that the history of the end of the Raj was largely composed of the doings of the officer class and its wife. Indians get walk-ons, but remain, for the most part, bit-players in their own history" (Salman Rushdie).