The Ballroom of Romance Tapa dura - 1972

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: The Bodley Head, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of this master storyteller's eighth novel. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, priced £3.50 and illustrated by John Walsh. Exceptionally Fine, tight, square and apparently unread, in a vibrant, unfaded jacket. Set on the Dorset coast, The Children of Dynmouth is "one of Trevor's best" novels, and won the Whitbread Award. "The book tells of the interconnected lives of the residents of a small seaside town, and how Timothy Gedge, a teenage boy, spies on them and brings about disaster; it is a reflection on evil and on marriage." (Literary Encyclopedia) Trevor adapted the novel into a screenplay for BBC television. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction… Leer más

LONDON, BODLEY HEAD, 1972. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN A SELLOPHANE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. NEAT NAME AND DATE IN RED INK ON FEP.

London: Bodley Head, 1972. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Bodley Head, 1972. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial unclipped dust jacket; 269pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, damp stain along bottom margin of jacket foot slightly bleeding into front and rear panel though barely perceptible externally, mild bumping to corners, else a Very Good, still quite bright copy. The late Irish author's second short story collection.

London: The Bodley Head, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the Irish author's second collection, including "A Choice of Butchers" and "O Fat White Woman." 8vo: 269,[1]pp. Publisher's olive-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. An excellent example (apparently unread) in a virtually pristine jacket. William Trevor was one of the most acclaimed writers in English of the twentieth century, above all in the short story form (he published eleven volumes). "The Ballroom of Romance" shows Trevor's art "at its most characteristic and best. It concerns Bridie, a woman in rural Ireland, a feature of whose monotonous life is the regular dances at the ballroom, places that were once a familiar part of the country. The night in question will be the last, as Bridie realises in a moment of epiphany that the man she has been waiting for can never be hers. . . . Resignation is seen through the eyes of someone ordinary and left behind by life,… Leer más

London: The Bodley Head, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First edition. Hardcover. 8'' x 5 1/2''. 269pp. Taped to outside of book is Viking Press notice as this being ''unrevised proofs''. Bodley head has been inked out on title page.