Beyond Desire - a Novel Based On the Life Of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn

New York:: Random House, 1955.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red boards; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Daniel Schwartz. An historical novel based on the life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn. Author Pierre La Mure was a successful French writer. His weekly articles from… Read more about this item

London: coliins, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. First UK Edition Thus. Book Condition: Very Good. Tiny amounts of foxing to the fore edges and leading corners are lightly rolled. The jacket is not price clipped but has small amounts of edgewear and chipping to the head and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1955. Very good hardcover with very good dust jacket, 1955. Slight edge wear to jacket. Jacket includes original price.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Collins, 1956. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 384 pages; very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf wear to covers other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ rubbed along edges, several very tiny chip/tears, two short tears at front top repaired inside by clear tape, … Read more about this item

Random House, 1955, 1955. Book. Very Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Fine Plus. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very fine copy in a fine jacket missing a small chip in the crown. "Novel based on life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn." Great copy..

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New York,, Ny, U.S.A.: Random House , 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition (Stated First Printing). Capital "C" Printed On The Ffep (First Free Endpaper). No Other Marks Or Writing. Page Edges Tanned By Age. Top Edges Dyed Peach. Jacket Code 11/55.… Read more about this item

Random House, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good in Good DJ. Book club edition, very good hardcover shows previous owner marks at top of front paste down, tiny ink mark at bottom page edges and some other light trace wear, in good + dust jacket that shows rubbing and soil, along with edge wear that includes a long closed tear… Read more about this item

London: coliins, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hard Cover. First UK Edition Thus. Book Condition: Very Good. Ghost of a pencil price to ffep. Slight fading to head of the spine. Tanning to fore edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not price clipped. Small amounts of chipping to the had and foot of the back strip.… Read more about this item

Random House, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Gift inscription on ffe. Price clipped.

NY: WILLIAM MORROW. CLOSED TEAR TO THE UNCLIPPED DJ. SIGNED FIRST EDITION LABEL TO DJ. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 2018.

London, United Kingdom: Collins, 1956. Blue bds with bright Gilt title (fresh and unworn) pp 384 copy is tight and clean with minor foxing to page edges. Original DJ is not scuffed, 2 small chips to spine ends, and some foxing to white areas.. First British. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Random House. 1st. 1955. vg-. Hardcover. 404pp; red cover with silver & darkened gilt lettering on spine; bumps to edges of front cover top of spine, top & fore edges .

Collins, 1956. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G++. 384pp, apart from a 3" tear on the rear panel ofthe dustjacket and some browning of the pages, a nice copy. Fiction based upon the life of Mendelssohn & his wife.

London: Collins. VG : in Very good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded. Ink inscription on fep. 1956. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 384pp. .

Random House, 1955. Hardcover. Good. While the corners of the DJ are chipped the binding is in quite good condition with very little wear on corners.

London: Book Club, 1957. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 352 p.; 19 cm. Subjects; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847); Fiction. American fiction. 20th century. Fiction. La Mure, Pierre (1909-1976).

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. First American edition, first printing. Red buckram boards with titles in white on spine. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Age-toned on text block edge, gently age-toned throughout interior pages; covers bumped and worn on edges, text block tight.

London: Random House Australia,1957. Hardcover/Vintage. Used.HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION 1957. POOR DUST JACKET WITH MAJOR SECTION MISSING ON FRONT.. HOWEVER BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH NO RIPS OR INSCRIPTIONSFelix Mendelssohn was one of the outstanding men of his time. In addition to his great personal charm, he had the good fortune to be a member of one of the… Read more about this item

Collins, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1956. No edition remarks. 384 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are mild tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Water marks to upper text block edge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning… Read more about this item