Condizione: USED_FAIR. 1964. First Published in GB. 255 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to some pages, text remains readable. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with creasing to spine.
Editore: Panther Books Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd., London, 1964
Da: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: USED_GOOD. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. This translation by Edward Hyams was Previously published in hard covers by Secker & Warburg in 1958. An earlier translation by Felix Giovanelli was published in the US by Vanguard in 1950. Originally published in France in 1944. Reading creasing and light edge rubbing to the spine which is faded along with the outer edge of the back cover. The front cover has a little browning on the border around the edges. Page edges browned with some spotting and whitish discolouration to the top edges near the corner. Browning and a little spotting to edges of the insides of the covers. Browning to the pages with slight spotting around the edges of the first and last pages but the pages are otherwise unmarked. First printing.
Editore: Secker & Warburg, 1958
Da: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Regno Unito
Condizione: USED_GOOD. 1958. English translation. 348 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over purple cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.
Editore: Panther 1st Panther edition April, 1964
Da: tsbbooks, London, Regno Unito
Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. paperback, good plus condition, reading creases on spine, light diagonal creases on corners. Panther 1663. Pages with age discolouration of paper around edges. 256pp. Sought after title and scarce. Classic gay story set in the forcing-house atmosphere of the boarding school. Young's 3036*.
Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. paperback, good condition,reading creases on spine, discolouration to edges of pages,wear/ some fraying front bottom of spine. 256pp. Panther Books 16635. Sought after title and scarce. Classic gay story set in the forcing-house atmosphere of the boarding school. Young's 3036*. ISBN:0586016635.
Editore: SECKER AND WARBURG, LONDON, 1958
Da: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_GOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Wrapper has some marks and open tears. Boards are rounded, and clean. Fore edge is foxed. Clean throughout. Good. Book.
Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Vanguard Press New York 1950 blue cloth boards are stained. binding tight. vg-.
Editore: The Vanguard Press, New York, NY, 1950
Da: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has sound hinges and is not cocked. A single line of text (possibly a name) has been blacked out with a marker on the first free endpage; remaining pages are very lightly toned, clean, unmarked and undamaged. The book's exterior is clean and bright. The lower right corner tip of the front cover is mildly bumped. No evident rub wear. The dust jacket is not price-clipped. It shows just the slightest soiling and very light toning to edges. Wear to edges includes a few small chips and tears, the longest of which is about 1/3". A clear archival sleeve has been placed on the jacket to keep it in great shape. Book, dust jacket and sleeve will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. "A Masterpiece" - Andre Gide.
Editore: Jean Vigneau, 1943
Da: Jon S. Richardson Rare Books, CONCORD, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Soft cover. Condizione: USED_NEARFINE. No Jacket. 1st Edition. PEYREFITTE's CLASSIC 1943 GAY NOVEL TURNED INTO A FILM Roger Perfrefitte. LES AMITIES PARTICULIERES, Roman, Paris, Jean Vigneau, 1943 (1944), tan wrappers lettered in black & red, large quarto, 380 pp. + printing page notes, book is variously catalogued because printer's note introduces an ambiguity where the printing was done on May 23, 1943 but the legal deposit was not made until 1944 -thus 1944 on the title page for a true first edition; NEAR FINE with a touch of soil and normal age to paper; this copy is #XCIX of the "Sur Papier Edition" issue; this copy is inscribed by Peyrefitte on the flysheet to someone whose name we cannot decipher but he uses the term homage as he does with some other books inscribed to noted authors or film people so that is probably the connection to be de-ciphered; this book was published in USA under title SPECIAL FRIENDSHIPS much later; a largely autobiographical novel of the friendship between two schoolboys and the interference of the school's priest - book was made into a French film by Jean Delannoy which shocked the country in the 1960s; catalogued at Yale under Gay Fiction; reprinted in 1945 by Flammarion and also later Vigneau printings and then wholesale reprinting before and after movie fame; most collections have reprints or an American edition, true first French edition is exceedingly RARE, an excellent candidate for a books-into-film collection. One of the Hors de Commerce copies number HC- XCIX-. Inscribed by Author(s).