Greene graham lacey everett (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First UK Edition. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. 8vo, 256pp. Protected dustjacket illustrated by Lacey Everett is in very good condition with minor edge wear to spine, price-clipped, with the colours still bright. Inner book is lovely and clean, a couple of pages have creases to the upper corner. ?Set in the Belgian Congo, a stranger from Europe arrives out of a past that no-one knows, with what object no-one knows.. Lacey Everett (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, January 1961. Top of page edges spotted, else fine, bound in it's original black cloth boards with silver lettering to the spine in near fine dust jacket, lightly darkened at spine, not price clipped (16s net), , in protective mylar cover. Dust Wrapper design by Lacey Everett. Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case", a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is. Everett, Lacey (illustratore). Book.…

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. The black boards have light edge wear. Brown spotting to the tops of the page edges. The pages are a little browned but are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a two inch closed tear running down from the top of the front panel, chipping at the top of the spine to a lesser extent to the other corners. Browning and spotting to the rear panel. Jacket design by Lacey Everett. First printing. Everett, Lacey (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. A lovely first UK edition of Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Lacey Everett. Ink inscription to the front free end paper, dated 1961. A Burnt-Out Case is a novel by Graham Greene (1904-1991), set in a leper colony on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Greene was inspired by his visits to leper colonies in the Congo and Cameroons, and dedicates this novel to Docteur Michel Lechat, a medical doctor at a leper colony in Yonda in Africa. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally the cloth is very smart, though slightly faded to the upper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only a little spotting to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is somewhat sunned to the spine, and to the rear of the wrap, which is also a little soiled. Some chipping to the head of the spine and wear to the joints and folds. Faint tidemark to the reverse of the wrap. Colour is otherwise good. Near Fine. Lacey Everett (illustratore). book.…