Search Results: maiden voyage by denton welch

Exact Change, 2013. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1954. Reissued, 1st thus. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. Plaintext paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. After I had run away from school, no one knew what to do with me ...Â’ Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his motherÂ’s death. There he suffered, and soon absconded, forcing his father to bring him back to Shanghai where further travels and adventures ensued. Maiden Voyage (1943) is WelchÂ’s semi-novelistic, beautifully observed account of these formative experiences. Creasing of the book corners with a little chipping to the back strip corners. The book is slightly cocked with stains and foxing to the book covers; with browning and foxing of the text block edges and pages. Previous owners… Read More

Hammondsworth, UK: Penguin Travel Library, 1983. (reprint). Trade Paperback. GOOD. Ex-library with expected markings and protective cover. Faint age toning of pages. From running away from school in England to "his impressions of the Temple of Heaven in Peking…he reveals his unique gift for observation coupled with a brilliantly idiosyncratic appreciation..." of the world around him.

Penguin, 1954. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Slight rubbing and soiling to wraps with a small to top of spine. No inscriptions, browning to page edges. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 'After I had run away from school, no one knew what to do with me...'Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Welch, Denton. 256pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Pages tanning. Internally, neat, clean and tight.

Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1999. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Fine. 274pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. Account of the author's sixteenth year, when he ran away from English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. Originally published in 1943. Foreword by Edith Sitwell.

NY: L.B. Fischer. 1945. The first American edition. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. Front hinge starting; beige cloth dust-darkened; a good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1945. WELCH, Denton. MAIDEN VOYAGE. New York: L.B. Fischer, (1945). First American edition of the author's first book. 8vo., light brown cloth lettered in red. Endpapers and dust jacket illustrated with designs by the author. A very good copy that shows some light soiling at the cloth; dust jacket shows light soiling and edgewear, chip at the crown.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Near fine in wrappers. Re-issue of the author and painter's first book, originally published in 1943, an imaginative novel set in an English prep school.

New York: L.B. Fischer, MCMXLV [1945]. 303pp. Octavo. Publisher's cloth binding. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has some edge-chips and light soil; not price-clipped. First American edition, first printing. The author's first book and with a foreword by Edith Sitwell.

Hamish Hamilton , 1973 . 0241023769 Hardback in clipped jacket. Spine lightly sunned, outer edge of page-block foxed. A previous owner has loosely inserted photocopies of Welch's artwork from the original edition.

1973. Hamish Hamilton Library, London. 1973. First edition thus. Hardback with DW. Wrapper is price clipped and a little bumped and spine is sunned. Otherwise a nice clean copy.

London: Routledge, 1943. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. From the collection of poet Gavin Ewart, with his name penned on F.E.P.. Penned inscription of Raymond Lawford dated 1945. on page after copyright page. Covers shelf worn, and corners and spine bumped, with discolouration to spine. Pages and text fine. RB. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

Exact Change, 2013-03-30. paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!