William le pretre (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good Hardback. First Published. 224 pages No D/J but covered in brown paper.

Hardcover. 224p., hardcover first edition in 7.5x5 inch pink cloth boards in dust jacket; spine panel of casing is mildly and evenly sunned, top edge dust-soiled, foredge flecked with foxing, and ffep bears author's presentration inscription (unsigned, but he has autographed the titlepage using his birth name). The dust jacket, on matte cream stock with illustration in monochrome red, is somewhat edgeworn with a touch of silverfishing. A good to very good copy. Plotline elements suggest this to be a thriller.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 224 pp The book is in very good condition. The jacket is good only, badly chipped, with loss, at the spine tips and corners and with 1 three inch closed tear.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. The Bolshevik, by Wm. Le Pretre (William Le Pretre). The scarce first edition of William Le Pretre's dystopian novel, in which a Bolshevik uprising seizes control of France and the UK. Much of the book is set in Paris, Brittany and Cornwall. Published by Henry Walker, London, 1931 (undated, as issued). First edition. Scarce - Worldcat only identifies 13 library holdings worldwide. Very good blue cloth hardback, with the spine head nicked. With original dustjacket, water-stained, with extremities frayed. No splitting to endpapers. Small bookseller's sticker to first pastedown. Slight creasing to first blank free endpaper with faint stain to lower corner. Text is bright and clean throughout. Dust toning to top edge of text block. No foxing. Overall, a tight, soundly bound, crisp copy of a scarce publication. Text in English. 291pp + 5pp advertisements at rear. Dimensions: approx 190mm high x 132mm wide x 35mm deep. Weight: approximately 358g (unpacked).…