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Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since August 23, 2007
First edition second printing December 1941. Good condition, octavo, tan boards, slight sunning and some light stains, spine sunned, book plate of United Service Club on front end paper off set to free end paper, [8] then 71 pages. Author's note:"The ghosts in this story are purely fictitious, and any of them attempting to materialise outside it will be prosecuted for fraud" [QP]. Seller Inventory # 013386
Title: A PLACE OF ONES OWN
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. G+, Shefwear, bumping, spine lean, foxing, browning/Poor, Edgewear, chips, tears (one large tear half the length of the spine at rear hinge), perforations, soiling, foxing, browning. Uncanny tale of a haunted house. 71 pages. Photos on request. Seller Inventory # 036603
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. A sold book, pages aged slightly but clean. No marks or inscriptions. Cream covered boards with sunning, minor bumps to bottom front edge and corners.A couple of knocks on the spine but that could be binding issue. DJ is incomplete front and front fold are present, back is missing. Still a first edition of this book for Sitwell enthusiasts! Seller Inventory # 903641
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bookbot, Prague, Czech Republic
Softcover. Condition: Fair. Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne; Deutlicher Riss. Seller Inventory # 9f972325-f370-4085-b67a-c94fa95999ab
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardback in fair condition- no jacket. Cover is heavily tanned and faded. Slight tear to top of spine. Inside pages are lightly tanned. Seller Inventory # 109502
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of Osbert Sitwell's spooky mystery novella. First Edition of Osbert Sitwell's 'A Place of One's Own' with original publisher's binding. The mystery novella, set in the early twentieth century, follows an elderly couple moving into their new house who discover that it is haunted. The book was adapted into a British film in 1945 of the same title. Osbert Sitwell was an English writer, brother of Sacheverelle Sitwell, and was similarly successful genre-varying writer and poet. This copy is the first imprint of the first edition. No dust wrapper. In publisher's original binding. No dust wrapper. Externally very smart, only some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and perhaps some discolouration all round. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book. Seller Inventory # 824W11
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition second impression from 1941 in near fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm. The jacket has some minor. Seller Inventory # ABE-1734965418526
Quantity: 1 available