Search Results: the west pier by patrick hamilton

Penguin Group, 1986. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books, 1986-06-03. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

London: Readers Union, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 1953 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with very light edge wear. The Dust Jacket is in Good+ condition, with some edge wear. Also some chipping and several neatly closed tears. The jacket is enclosed in an archival gloss Mylar jacket protector.

London: Readers Union, 1953. book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear, tear to rear.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Nichols. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Readers Union, 1953. owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Nichols. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. Very Good.

Readers Union. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Yellowed paper. 1953. Hardcover. Romance set in Brighton. 250gms weight; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 248 pages .

This is a first Readers Union edition (1953) of The West Pier, the brilliant novel by the English writer Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962), which was first published in the same year by Constable. It is the first of the three-novel Gorse Trilogy, which is based on the activities and personality of the con-man and murderer Neville Heath, who was executed for his crimes in 1946.
248 pages, with illustrations by the English artist Freda Nichols.
As you can see, the dust jacket of this book is not in the best of shape. The book is pristine. There's not a mark on it or in it.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Black Spring Press Ltd, 2007-06-21. Paperback. Very Good. 4.3967 in x 19.7850 in x 12.7903 in.

0 First edition/First printing published by Constable, London 1951. Owner's embossed address and ink date to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Browning/Spotting to endpages. Clean Black cloth covers.

0 First edition/First printing published by Constable, London 1951. Owner's embossed address and ink date to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Browning/Spotting to endpages. Clean Black cloth covers.

London: Constable, 1951. First printing of the first book in the Gorse trilogy. Ernest Ralph Gorse, unscrupulous con man, woos a working class girl with the aim of getting the money she has socked away. Spine heel gently bumped with a touch of rubbing to the corners and spine ends. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, including a 1" chip to the lower front and upper rear panels. Price clipped, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.

London: Constable, 1951. Hamilton's last books, a trilogy about the "abominable Gorse", a young sociopath & conman in England between the wars and his various victims; delightfully cynical. S&G was the loose basis for the 1987 ITV series The Charmer. West Pier is dated 1951; Stimpson & Gorse 1953; Unknown Assailant 1955. Each is the first edition (first printing), stating "first published" with the year, noting no later printings. Small blue hardcovers, silver titling; in jackets, as pictured. Light wear & some fading to books, corners rubbed & lightly bumped; handsome bookplate inside front covers of WP and UA; S&G has "Hamilton" inked on the free endsheet, some foxing; each book has a bookseller's label; jackets a bit rubbed with a few short tears & associated creasing, light chipping; the jacket of S&G is fair only, with rather more severe chipping, some scuffing damage, and internal foxing; all prices are intact; pages of… Read More