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Unclay: Available Copies
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Unclay by Powys, T. F.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780811228190
Publisher: New Directions (2018)
Seller: Bay State Book Company (North Smithfield, RI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.52
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TOTAL Cost: $5.52
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Unclay by Powys, T. F.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780811228190
Publisher: New Directions (2018)
Seller: Symbilbooks (Longwood, FL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $10.00
Very good condition. No highlighting, writing or marks of any kind. Clean covers and tight binding. Only slight wear to corners and spine-ends. Edges good, no scuffs, dings or tears.
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Unclay by T. F. Powys
Paperback
ISBN: 9780811228190
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, US (2018)
Seller: Rarewaves USA (OSWEGO, IL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $17.39
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TOTAL Cost: $17.39
New Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest.First published in 1931, Unclay glows with an unworldly light-Death has come to the small village of Dodder to deliver a parchment with the names of two local mortals and the fatal word unclay upon it. When he loses the precious sheet, he is at a loss, and also free of his errand. Hungry to taste the sweet fruits of human life, Mr. John Death, as he is now known, takes a holiday in Dorsetshire and rests from his reaping. The village teems with the old virtues (love, kindness, patience) and the old sins (lust, avarice, greed). What unfolds is a witty, earthy, metaphysical, and delicious novel of enormous moral force and astonishing beauty.
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Unclay (Paperback) by T.F. Powys
Paperback
ISBN: 9780811228190
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York (2018)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $18.99
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TOTAL Cost: $18.99
Paperback. New Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest.First published in 1931, Unclay glows with an unworldly lightDeath has come to the small village of Dodder to deliver a parchment with the names of two local mortals and the fatal word unclay upon it. When he loses the precious sheet, he is at a loss, and also free of his errand. Hungry to taste the sweet fruits of human life, Mr. John Death, as he is now known, takes a holiday in Dorsetshire and rests from his reaping. The village teems with the old virtues (love, kindness, patience) and the old sins (lust, avarice, greed). What unfolds is a witty, earthy, metaphysical, and delicious novel of enormous moral force and astonishing beauty. T. F. Powys is a forgotten genius like no otherand Unclay is his masterpiece Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Unclay by T. F. Powys
Paperback
ISBN: 9780811228190
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, US (2018)
Seller: Rarewaves.com USA (London, LONDO, United Kingdom) New Book
Book Price: $20.71
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $20.71
New Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest.First published in 1931, Unclay glows with an unworldly light-Death has come to the small village of Dodder to deliver a parchment with the names of two local mortals and the fatal word unclay upon it. When he loses the precious sheet, he is at a loss, and also free of his errand. Hungry to taste the sweet fruits of human life, Mr. John Death, as he is now known, takes a holiday in Dorsetshire and rests from his reaping. The village teems with the old virtues (love, kindness, patience) and the old sins (lust, avarice, greed). What unfolds is a witty, earthy, metaphysical, and delicious novel of enormous moral force and astonishing beauty.
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Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP (Burbank, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $25.00
Shipping: $4.99
TOTAL Cost: $29.99
Small octavo in brown cloth binding. Condition: minor shelf-wear to binding; faint stain to bottom edge of front & rear covers and also slightly affecting front & rear endpapers but not other pages; else good. Pages: viii, 343 and 4-page publisher's list.
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Unclay by Powys, T. F.
Hardcover
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Publisher: The Viking Press, New York (1932)
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books (Denver, CO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $40.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $47.00
Presumed first edition w/SD & NAP, hardcover, has a slim sensor tag adhered to the last page, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, sun toning to the spine and head, mild shelfwear to the edges, and a brief bookseller's note to the rear paste down. Otherwise, this is a solid, Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good only dust jacket, which has tears and chips no deeper than a couple millimeters to the spine ends and corners, heavy sunning to the spine with areas of toning to the covers, a short snag torn to the rear hinge, and rubbing with some light edge wear to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
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Seller: Bouquinerie du Varis (Russy, FR, Switzerland)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $28.78
Shipping: $23.89
TOTAL Cost: $52.67
205x140mm, 292pages, Nom du possesseur sur le haut de la page de garde supérieure, autrement bon état. Envois Europe : Sans frais additionnels. TVA prélevée via IOSS & Envoi en DDP (droits payés). Exceptions (taxes postales locales à la charge de l'acheteur) : France, Italie, Lituanie (~2EUR). Contact via notre page d'accueil en cas de problème.
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