An Occupation for Gentlemen. by WARBURG, FREDRIC - 1959

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company. Some light foxing on bckstrp, o/w Very Good w/o DJ.. 1960.. First Edition..

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. Stated first US printing, 1960. Hardcover in original unclipped dust jacket. DJ chipped and worn with age, folded tears along length of front and back edges. Lighter scuffing and general wear throughout. Strong binding. Pages clean, no notes or underlining. A good copy overall.

Houghton Mifflin, January 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1960. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 288 pp. .

HUTCHINSON OF LONDON. Hardcover. USED Good.

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First American. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/Very Good. 1st American Edition / 1st Printing - No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. From private collection, dust cover is in archival mylar. . . . . . Fredric John Warburg (27 November 1898 - 25 May 1981) was a British publisher best known for his association with the author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th century and ending in 1971 Warburg published Orwell s Animal Farm (1945) as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and works by other leading figures such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Other notable publications included The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa, Pierre Boulle s The Bridge over the River Kwai, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and William Shirer s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. -- Wikipedia Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1960. Stated First Printing. Very Good/Good. Stated First Printing in clean original dust jacket. Clean red boards with beige cloth spine, red and brown lettering on spine. 1/4" closed tear at top spine edge, else no wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, small previous owner date (6-2-60) penned at top corner of front frfee endpaper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 288 pages with index. Clean jacket is price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap, has long closed diagonal tear to rear panel which has been carefully taped on blank side of dust jacket, a few additional short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An autobiography of Fred Warburg, book publisher extraordinaire..

London: Hutchinson, 1959. 288pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; light soiling & foxing on edges. Dj extremities chipped & have small tears. Photos & index. Dj in Mylar.. Hb. VG-/G+.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine and accessible autobiography of the Warburg (1898-1981) of the famous London publishing house Secker & Warburg and who was intimately knowledgeable of artists and art book-publishing. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, chipping along top edge. Quite a few black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Extensive prelims, 11-287 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.