ISBN: 9780030442018 - title: quarantine a novel (6 resultados)

Hardcover--quarter cloth. Condición: Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 194 pages, orange quarter cloth. A fine, clean, hardcover first American edition, first printing, with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good+, clean dust jacket with light fading to the back strip, with original price.…

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ New. NO markings of ANY kind. New DJ not price clipped ($8.95) ; Author's 1st novel. ; 194 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Nice and tight, the jacket spine is sunned.

Hardcover. Condición: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition, First Pinting. Text/BRAND NEW w/small closed tear to lower edge of rear endpaper. Bi-color boards w/silver lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/light wear & discoloration to spine. Trace soiling to upper text edge. A moral thriller set in Egypt circa 1937 in which an un-named, Australian narrator reveals a youthful experience. Then enroute to England to study law, the narrator finds himself sailing the Suez Canal. The battered old ship is inexplicably detained, and all passengers are quarantined in an isolated, decrepit hotel. Then begins a "faszad", an Egyptian word connoting "dirty business" covering the trivial to the disastrous. This faszad proves deadly. An eye-witness account by the narrator, imprisoned in a web of his own passivity and jealously, is unable to prevent the ensuing violence. First novel from the Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck (1942 - ), Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge.…

hardcover. Holt Rinehart Winston, 1979. First US edition and first printing of authors first book. Book condition is near fine with light foxing to the edges of the text block. D/w is unclipped but has light sunfading to the spine and a 1 cm repaired tear to the top edge. Otherwise a very nice tight copy. This copy has been SIGNED by the author to the title page.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Speckled beige boards, with orange spine printed with gold lettering. Head and tail of spine are very slightly bumped, else in very good condition. Binding neat and tidy. Endpapers in very good condition. Page edges very slightly foxed, else in very good condition. Dustwrapper faded on spine, has some marks, else in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.…