Dust jacket has some wear and chipping to edges. Previous owner’s inscription to free end paper. Set in a leper colony in the Congo.

Signed Limited edition 15/ 200. Previous owner’s inscription to free end paper and small ownership stamp to fixed end paper at rear of book. Brown cloth cover with wear particularly on edges and top and bottom of spine. Label on spine worn and discoloured. Spotting and discolouration to covers. Book is sound and contents in good condition.

Translated from Afrikaans by David Schalkwyk. Set in the 1870s in the then small town of Bloemfontein.

Light foxing to endpapers. Past owner’s name on front endpaper; address stamp on front and back endpapers. DW spine browned with shelf label.

The true first edition, without the Times review on the front flap of the dust jacket. Black cloth boards with red lettering to the spine and heart to the front board. Dust jacket is price clipped, but price of 10s. 6d. net appears on the back flap, along with the book title and author’s name. There is some minor chipping and loss to the head and foot of the dust jacket at the spine. The dj spine is lightly sunned. The back panel has the sketch of Fleming and the blurb about his life. There is some even age toning to the back panel. Some very minor chipping to the foredges of the jacket. Black boards are clean and sharp, There is a 0.5cm closed tear to the top of the spine. Bookseller’s sticker to the bottom of the pastedown fep. A very good copy of this scarce title. Please contact seller for more images and for courier options.

First issue, First edition. DW clipped. Piano factory fire text on p. 272. Previous owner’s name in pencil to the front fep. Previous book dealer’s mark to the front endpapers. Some spotted foxing to the edges of the leaves. Boards show only slight wear. DW shows significant wear with some open and closed tears and some chipping.

First edition. Past owners’ names in ink on front endpaper. Slight marking to fore edges of pages. DW scuffed with chips top and bottom and adhesive tape on inside.

Ex-library.

First edition. First printing of the author’s first book, Light gray-brown cloth with gilt title to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket has some short closed tears and fraying to the extremities. Light foxing to dust jacket. The interior is spotless and appears to be unread.

Dust jacket has closed tears, some wear and is price clipped. Bookseller’s sticker to the fep.

Dust jacket is worn with scuff marks and sunning to the spine, and minor tearing and creasing to edges. Slight foxing to endpapers. Wole Soyinka was nobel Laureate for literature in 1986. A play based on an event in Nigeria in 1984

1st edition. Very good condition. Green cloth cover with some wear to edges and scuffing.

Ink inscription and correction in permanent marker to the front endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy.

First British edition. Light foxing on fore edges of pages. Spine sunned top and bottom. DW spine has small tears at lower edge and larger tear (piece missing) at top edge. DW lightly foxed.

A first paperback edition, signed and inscribed by Bruce Chatwin.
The inscription reads: To Anne Hughes, with many thanks on a memorable day at Sterkfontein, (Bruce Chatwin) 7 July ‘84

Clear and neat text, ex-library book, with library pocket to fep and sticker to spine of dust wrapper. Tape repair to back fep. Dedication page tipped in.

Ink inscription and date (1962) on fep with foxing to pages.

An English adaptation by Ronald Duncan, of the play L’Aigle a deux Tetes”" . Previous owner’s name on the fep.

The true first edition, with the Golden Gun embossed on the front board.Bookseller’s sticker and previous owners inscription to the fep. The dust jacket is worn on the front fore edge. With a small tear to the top and a small amount of loss to the bottom. There is some light insect damage to the back of the dw. Slight lean to the spine, boards clean with gilt titles to spine and front board bright. There are some light pen marks to the bottom of the text block and a bump to the boards on the top edge.

Only light general wear to boards and a little browning to dw spine.