DAY'S END AND OTHER STORIES de Bates, H. E

Paperback. Very Good.

BLOOMSBURY 3PL. New. Special order direct from the distributor

New York:: The Viking Press,, 1928.. First US edition.. publisher's decorated cloth with printed paper label on spine.. Slight bump to one corner; a little soiling to cloth; tight and sound. . 8vo,.

Paperback / softback. New.

Jonathan Cape, 1928. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a price clipped dust jacket which is strengthened to the verso of a darkened spine that has loss to the head and is & now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 286pp.

New York:: The Viking Press,, 1928.. First edition.. publisher's cloth with printed paper label in dust jacket.. Slight foxing to fore-edge; a little browning to the paper label; else better than very good in an unchipped jacket which is tanned on the spine and slightly bumped at the head.. 8vo,.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966 Hardcover book. Reprint of 1953 edition: the Evensford edition. Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author to a fellow Northamptonshire author: To Raymond Howe, with all good wishes, H. E. Bates. Green cloth lettered in red, and pictorial dustjacket by Nichols. 286pp. A Fine, clean and bright copy, with small price-clipping to jacket. Pictures available.

London.: Jonathan Cape., 1928. First printing. PRESENTATION COPY, GIFT INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 'To John S. Clarke, with ... wishes and ... memories of the oddest shop in the world. H. E. Bates'. . Hard. Very Good. 8vo.. Very good. Lacking dust jacket. Spine slightly sunned. Gift inscribed and signed by author to free front endpaper. Endpapers slightly foxed.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Two-tone cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge slightly spotted and binding just a little tender at the half-title. A trace of light partial browning to the free endpapers and to the half-title. A very good copy - particularly crisp internally - housed in the non-price-clipped dust wrapper exhibiting some staining to the spine panel, and just a little dust soiling and a trace or two of edgewear. The author's first full-length collection of short fiction, comprising twenty-five stories, with a printed dedication of George William Lucas, Bates' maternal grandfather. 1,500 copies were printed. Eads A6..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 286pp. Beautiful First Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear at the spine ends. A hint of toning to spine but barely. Small booksellers tag on rear paste-down. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (7s.6d), has trivial edge-wear, toning spine and edges. Light soiling. Still sharp with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by the author on the half-title page. A very handsome collectable copy.