Judith Hearne by Brian Moore, First Edition (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Like new condition.

Paperback. first PB. D-205, very good , creases (HARDBOILED NOVEL), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. D-205, very good , some penciled in (HARDBOILED NOVEL), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. D-205, very good -fine, , reading crease (HARDBOILED NOVEL), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Cond: VG+ / VG+. Stated 1975 2nd Impression of the original 1955 Deutsch 1st Edition, the basis for the 1987 Jack Clayton film "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, with Maggie Smith in the lead role. Book is straight square, securely bound, faintly and uniformly age toned and free of markings and blemishes. DJ light rubbing, minor soil spots, and faint age toning the only discernible flaws, Cover and Dust Jacket (clipped at bottom of front flap) are otherwise clean and bright, with sharp corners and joints, straight heads, tails, spine / backstrip, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct lettering and design. (Please see Seller images.) ISBN 0233966994. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping; please contact ShiroBooks PRIOR TO ORDERING if more information, details or photos are needed.

Condition: Good. 1959. First edition thus. 223 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2nd impression. First novel by the Irish-Canadian author. 223 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st or First Thus, Later Printing. McClelland & Stewart Hard Copy with dust jacket. There are less than a half dozen of these around for sale. This one is ex-library and although there is no date, the library documentation indicates it was acquired in 1983 and that the cover price was 9.95. Green dj with white celtic motif in corners, price clipped. Blue boards with gold lettering, spine slightly cocked. Usual library accoutrements including dreadful scotch tape marks and protective cover. Spine top and tail lightly bumped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. Small 8vo, 224pp. Hardcover, bound in original blue cloth over boards, in the original lime green printed dustjacket. Book is in very good condition overall. Firm binding and crisp, clean, interior. No markings or signs of prior ownership. Light crease to a couple of corners. Covers show some mild shelf-wear and rubbing to extremities. The d/j is in very good minus condition with some wear to edges, shallow chipping to spine ends and a little unevem fading to spine and edge of front panel. Still attractive, now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A bright, clean copy. Unmarked internally. Small mark on rear cover - where price sticker was removed?.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1964 First edition 3rd reprint paperback "New Canadian Library" #39, 185 tanned pages some shelf rubbing to covers Otherwise in GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Minor marks to cover. Pages lightly age toned - no inscriptions.

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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The DJ has two chips and a mended tear. Previous owner's name in the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First British Edition. Pages somewhat toned and top edge spotted else a clean, unmarked near fine copy in unclipped clipped, near fine dustjacket with lightly soiled back panel and very slight loss at tips and head of spine. A bright, attractive copy even so. Photos available on request. Author's much praised first 'serious' book, a novel, preceded by four quickie pbo thrillers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Lonely Passion of Miss Judith Hearne' by Brian Moore. This book is a paperback Penguin Books first edition, UK, 1959. First published in 1955 by Andre Deutsch. This book does bear staining to the covers and sun darkening to the pages and edges of the text block. The spine has some wear to the bottom an sun darkening but it overall complete. A fairly scarce item in this Penguin first edition format. Number 1343 in the Penguin Books series. Brian Moore won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and the Beta Sigma Phi award for this novel where a woman in Belfast tries to find love in middle age believing her life to have been wasted . In 1987 Maggie Smith played Judith Hearne in a film also starring Bob Hoskins.

Condition: good to very good. 1st US Edition. 223pp. Octavo. Blue coated cloth, slightly bumped and worn at ends of spine. Yellowish paper covering 3/4 of boards with stamped decoration, slightly dirty at edges. Clean endpapers. Clean, tight text block. In yellow-green dust jacket, slighty rubbed and lightly worn at edges with some very light chipping. Some stains on back of dust jacket. Not price clipped. good to very good Authors first serious novel (after a 1951 pamphlet). First US edition preceded by English edition which was simply titled 'Judith Hearne'. Rare, especially with dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First US Edition. 223 pages in very good, clean condition; outer edges and endpapers a little yellowed. Quarter bound with blue cloth over yellow boards; gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Green DJ with blue titles. Spine faded, small tears and chips on corners, edges, head/tail of spine. Lower jacket a little soiled. Jacket not price clipped. VG/GOOD+. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 223pp Two corners bumped.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth bckstrip over yellow paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 223pp.; mild toning, minimal foxing to endpapers; mild soil to yellow boards; gilt on spine is rubbbed; dusty textblock; Very Good. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50) with toning to spine; tiny blue circle sticker near the heel; mild soil; nicks and tears to the extremities with several tape repairs to the verso; Good+. "The world is full of Judith Hearnes, people who for one reason or another never make the frontal attack on life. Sometimes they are men, sometimes they are women, but alwys they are waiting; waiting for Mr. or Miss Right to round the corner." (from the dustjacket).

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Signed and inscribed by the author. First edition of author's first book. Maroon paper covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Textblock is clean and tight throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Burgundy cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine. ** Signed by the author, in an inscription, on the front free end paper. First Edition, 1955, tightly bound, unmarked text with tanning to the page edges. Cover scuffing with spine end and corner bumping. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 223 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first serious book (leaving aside four thrillers, two of which were published pseudonymously). This copy inscribed by the author on the title page "for John" and additionally signed beneath the author's printed name. 8vo. 223pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust soiled and with a very minor slant to the binding. Small areas of light staining to four text leaves. A nearly very good copy, remaining really quite crisp and bright, and housed in the original pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat dust soiled and darkened, with a two-inch area of loss from the base of the spine panel, and some further smaller slivers from the head of the spine panel and from the corner tips and with several internally repairs short jagged tears. Quite a bright, fresh copy in a somewhat handled and damaged example of the dust wrapper, but still desirable with the author's signature. Rees A5(a). Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1955. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Red on spine quite lightened. Light edge rubbing. Light foxing. More images can be taken upon request.RefA1234.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover; 8vo; 223 pages. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Dark-red paper hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine. The pages are beginning to yellow, but are still bright and clean. In an illustrated jacket in black and orange. Sunned spine. Small chip missing from front. Yellowing overall, but NPC. VG/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Book is close to NF but for light mottling to spine. Married to unclipped 2nd-impression DJ with closed tears at a couple of edges, a 1/4" chip at top of spine, and slight browning to spine. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For Elfriede with my best wishes/ Brian Moore." A nice copy of Moore's first serious book, and the first published under his own name. 5 x 7.5". 223 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, presentation copy; 8vo; publisher's burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt, with the pictorial dust jacket, spine a little rolled but a very good copy in the nicked dust jacket with a deal of he endemic fading at the spine. A fine association copy from the library of the publisher, Tom Maschler, with his bookplate to the front paste down and the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, 'To my new publisher Brian Moore'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 12mo. 18.5cm, the first edition, 223p. original maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine copy, some slight edge wear on the top spine edge of the jacket & slightly dust soiled on the bottom panel, a very good to fine price clipped jacket, Author's Signed Presentation Copy "Glenn, with my thanks, Brian Moore", the first edition of the author's first serious book, rare thus. (ids).