The World's Game de Thomas, Hugh - 1957

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate water staining to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Light rubbing and marking all over.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing of author's first book, a satirical look at life in the British Foreign Office. INscribed by the author: "To Bill Epstein, from Hugh Thomas, in the expectation that you will reach a disarmament agreement. July 1957" Near fine in a near fine dustjacket with minute edgewear and some soiling. Not priceclipped. Uncommon book, especially signed.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957 (500 gram rate) very tidy copy, unclipped DW with light rubbing wear to spine ends, top edge lightly dust soiled, rear fly lightly browned, author's first work in the first edition, 255pp set in the Foreign Office, DW by Philip Jullian. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Philip Jullian. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Owner name on front pastedown (under the dj flap), otherwise a clean, tight copy. Dust jacket is tanned on spine panel and has some foxing on rear panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "For ___ / from the Author / Christmas 1964".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London., 1957. First edition. Octavo. 256 pages. A satirical novel of the British Foreign Office; the author went on to write the great history of the Spanish Civil War.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''Francis Wyndham from Hugh Thomas - Nov. 1973''. The recipient, who died aged 93 at the end of 2017, was a writer and journalist, probably best known as the man who discovered Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, Alan Hollinghurst, et al, and who rediscovered Jean Rhys.Very good indeed in very good, slightly nicked and marked dustwrapper, designed by Philippe Jullian, slightly darkened at the spine.