Yvette de fraser (6 resultados)

Condición: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is tanned. DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Light wear to covers, spine has very slight curve, pages yellowed but clean, binding very good. A ruthlessly true to life story of the slow corruption of a young innocent.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Pages tanned, jacket a little worn at the edges, price clipped. From the opening scenes in Charley's Bar in Brussels, the reader is involved in the lives of the small circle of people who are responsible between them for the slow corruption of an innocence. Vladimir, the exile, who should have had the authority to give advice; the faintly bogus Prince Monneret; Yvette's dying mother and her aunt, the invidious Madame Bocquere; the elegant and unpredictable Jonathan; Peter, whose very simplicity implicated him; the narrator, Yvette's lover, whose moral cowardice was perhaps the biggest single factor; and poor sweet Yvette herself, was she entirely blameless? From the start it is clear that there will be no easy way out and the author does not offer us one. His conclusion, one realises finally, is inevitable and ruthlessly true to life.…

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Brown boards with dark lettering on the spine. Head and tail of boards, including spine, are very lightly rubbed and faded. Binding is neat and tidy. Pages are thumbed and uniformly discoloured, due to age. Edges are moderately discoloured and foxed, else this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper is a little discoloured and scuffed. Spine faded and a little stained. Head and tail of spine showing light wear and tear. Edges bear some creasing. Lightly rubbed and thumbed, otherwise in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 265pp., Not price-clipped. Some tanning o/w nice copy.