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The Powys Brothers: A Biographical Appreciation: Available Copies

1972. Reprinted. 275 pages. Brown jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black & white, illustrations. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Book has a slight forward lean. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright & clear. Clipped jacket. Panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing.

275 clean, unmarked, tight pages; corner-clipped half title page; lightly penciled price and initials on title page; light soiling on top edge of textblock; light shelf, edge, and corner wear on cover, clear tape on lower front and spine, and creased spine

8vo, 275 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket

1972. First Edition Thus. 275 pages. Brown dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. 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. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Very Good in Wraps: shows moderate spine lean; a faint crease near the front hinge; light wear to extremities; very mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; a thin line of sunning along the outside edge and along the front hinge of the front panel; faintest thumbing and foxing at the fore-edge; binding secure; text clean. Structurally sound and tightly bound, but showing moderate wear. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 275pp. Reprint Edition; First Printing thus. This title was first published in Hardcover by Warren House Press.

pp.xii, 275 pages, a very good plus hardback in a very good plus dust-jacket with 8 pages of plates.

Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs.

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Illustrated in black & white; previous owners note penned on ffep.; 275pp.

First edition. Very good in a very good (one short closed edge tear, small corner crease to front flap) dust jacket.

xi and 275 pp. Large 8vo, black cloth, dust jacket. MINT

8vo 275pp 8pp of Plates. Protected dustwrapper, unclipped.

Mild wear to boards with tanning to covers and surface marks. Content is clean with light toning to pages. DJ has edge wear with minor chips and tears to edges, tanning to covers and some faint marks.

With dust jacket. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.

Good condition. Hard cover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Edges very lightly tanned with a couple of tiny marks. Pages very lightly tanned but otherwise good. No jacket. Cover slightly grubby with minor bumping to corners and spine ends. 275 pages.

1st in this edition hardback with dustwrapper good+/good+ front blank endpaper removed, 275 pages, illustrated with 8 pages of plates

Page fore-edge yellowed & lightly foxed; cover a little shelf-worn, with faded spine

275pp, complete dustjacket, a very little rubbed to the corners. B + w illustrations. Spots of foxing to the top edge, otherwise a very clean copy. A biography of the authors John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys and Theodore Powys.

Looks unread but spine background sunned and minor shelf wear. (3 copies)

x, 275pp, photographs. DW is price clipped, with light corner wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Hardcover. Worn dust jacket with several marks. Small tears on rear upper edge of jacket. Slight bumping on hardcover spine ends. Several marks and light foxing on page block. Foxing at front and rear. Minor creasing on inner corners of pages 107 - 110. Binding is sound, and the text is clear. AF

Biography of John Cowper, Theodore and Llewelyn Powys, original characters and remarkable writers. Illustrated. Dj is rubbed half way down the spine, partly effacing some of the title words.

x, 275pp, photographs. Unclipped DW with a minor edge tear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cloth, dj, F/F, xii+275pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Study of the all three Powys brothers together, of their influence on each other and of their lives together. 650 grams.

2nd edn signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. x + 275, with b&w illus (no further inscriptions),

1972. Warren House. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- VG. 8.5x5.5. 275pp. 11 b/w photos.

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 275 pages.

First edition first printing octavo hardback xii + 276 pp, Edge of page block slightly foxed otherwise Very Good condition in Good + unclipped dust jacket (a bit embrowned). No inscriptions.

0902107046. with dustjacket, 1972 ed, bright clean copy