The Young Visitors by Wain ,John - 1969

Viking, 1965. Jacket has some wear at spine top.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Viking. 1965 1st ed. 214pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj [age spots on fore edge & bottom edge & on white spine cloth; else nrVG; dj = few edge nicks & short tears; else nrVG] The prolific English novelist and poet John Wain (1925-94), quondam Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford and former student of C. S. Lewis, was one of the original "Angry Young Men" of 1950s literary Britain, an appellation he did not necessarily accept.

London: Penguin, 1969. 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 2910 Orange/Black cartoon cover. 172 pp. Good copy.

Penguin Books Ltd, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. 171 pages. Pictorial paper covers. 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. Paperback has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Macmillan, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. Reprint. 206 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth. Minor tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends as well. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Penguin, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. First Penguin Edition. 172 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1965 The Viking Press, New York. 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to board edges and spine. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.50); slight chipping to head and tail; light shelfwear to tips; light rubbing to panels. Black paper over boards with white linen overlay on the spine with Orange and black lettering on the spine. 214 pp 8vo. This book is a spoof of the present-day efforts to thaw the Cold War through what is called "cultural exchange." Elena is a young post-war Russian woman who meets Jack Spade in his Coffee-House. Spade wrote a book that is very popular in Russia about the utter depravity of English life. They are drawn together and Jack is looking for a casual affair and she is oblivious to that. The author then takes the couple through a maze of courting rituals that picture the condition today. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York: Viking. 1965. First American Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 214 pages

A very good book with light edge wear, light dust soiling to the page edges, in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear and sunning to the spine and a tiny chip at the head of the spine. See Photos

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GB: Penguin, 1969. 1st Thus. Paperback. G++.

London: Macmillan, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 1st edition. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.