Alanna Autumnal
Barker, George
Published by Wishart, London, 1933
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Hard Cover
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8vo. 1933. First edition. 87pp. Browning to eps and some very light sporadic foxing. Pages lightly and uniformly browned otherwise good in original quarter cloth and paper covered boards. Light rubbing to edges and generally browned, foxed and slightly grubby with a few very minor marks. Good overall and better than it sounds. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 24778
Bibliographic Details
Title: Alanna Autumnal
Publisher: Wishart, London
Publication Date: 1933
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
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Alanna Autumnal
Published by
Wishart, London, 1933
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard cover with olive green cloth spine including red titles and red facial profile on light green paper boards, with almost no cover wear, but some mild discolouration. No inscriptions, 87 quite clean pages. Published in 1933 this 1st edition volume is in very good condition. Seller Inventory # 004767
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Alanna Autumnal
Published by
Wishart, 1933
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original gold cloth, corners and spine bumped, upper spine chipped with losses, owner bookplate inside cover of Stephen Spender (inv-20FL). Seller Inventory # s12009933030
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Alanna Autumnal.
Published by
Wishart,, 1933
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Paul Rassam ABA ILAB, Charlbury, United Kingdom
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First edition. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, reproducing a drawing by the author. Edgell Rickword's copy, with his ownership signature to free endpaper. Spine slightly faded and soiled, boards slightly dust-soiled, corners chafed, else a good copy. The author's semi-autobiographical first novel, written between the ages of eighteen and twenty. According to his biographer, it had originally taken the form of a journal but was eewritten as a work of fiction at the recommendation of Rickword and his co-director at Wishart, Douglas Garman. Seller Inventory # 4049
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Alanna Autumnal.
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London: Wishart, 1933. First edition., 1933
Used
Hardcover
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
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Light green boards designed in red, black cloth spine. A clean very good copy in the pictorial dust jacket, some wear and soiling to the rear panel. Barker's first book, not common in the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 57221
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Alanna autumnal
Published by
Wishart, London, 1933
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 87 p.; 23 cm. 0.0. Seller Inventory # ABE.0008180
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Alanna Autumnal
Published by
Wishart, London, 1933
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this early work by George Barker, a semi-autobiographical novel. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, scarce to see.'Alanna Autumnal' is a semi-autobiographical novel by George Barker, written across a period of eighteen years, beginning when he was eighteen. A reflective novel following the love affair between a young man and woman.Barker was a poet who identified with the New Apocalyptics movement. He has a long affair with Elizabeth Smart, who immortalised their liaison in her novel 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light handling marks to the boards. Spine is faded. Light rubbing to the extremities. Spots to the fore edge. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with small chips and closed tears, including a tear to the tail of the rear joint, and to the head of the front wrap. Spine and extremities are age-toned. Handling marks and spots to the wraps. Spots to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spots. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # 933P23
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