The Child Buyer

Black cloth covered boards with facsimile Author initials in gilt on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Water stain on top of text block affecting some pages with blue stain marks. Pages are not wrinkled, and this had very little effect on integrity of text. Images on request. No other defects noted. DJ has slight age toning. … Read more about this item

NY. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Alfred A. Knopf; 1960; First Edition. Hersey, John. The Child Buyer. NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1960, First Edition, 257 pages. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. Dust wrapper slight staining to spine, several small tears. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to… Read more about this item

Knopf, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Stated. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Former Owner's Bookplate Inside Front Cover And L. 8/61 Penned On Top Of Front Endpaper, Otherwise Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy In Clean, Undamaged, Not Price Clipped Dust Jacket. Spne Lightly Sunned..

New York: LaMarca Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1960 novel by John Hersey. A satire about the American educational system, in which a man tries to buy a smart young child with a difficult home life in order to utilize him in an experiment to engineer super-intelligent humans. Adaptation written by… Read more about this item

Contemporary Fiction, Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. First Edition. 257 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Third printing. Owner's name penned on front fly, cloth edges mildly sunned, very good in a good only age-toned and lightly soiled dustwrapper with chipped edges. A novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Inscribed by John Hersey, the first edition of The Child Buyer, published in 1960.. Octavo, 256pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Touch of soiling along top edge of text block, otherwise fine. In… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1960 This book is from the collection of Peter Dzwonkoski, former Director of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Rochester, and previously of Yale's Beinecke Library. Inscribed to Peter on title page. Clipped jacket with no chipping or. bumping. Black cloth with gilt title on spine and author's initial on cover.. Inscribed by Author(s).… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton. 16mo; 257, (258)pp. Previous owner's name on the front pastedown. A few foxing spots on the front free endpaper, matched on the pastedown, minor wear only. . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 1961.

Bantam Books, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Edge wear to jacket, including a few small chips. Smudging to jacket. Toning. Small owner name to front end page. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition is stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

New York, Knopf, 1960. Third Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 257 pages; Description: 257 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Conspiracies--Fiction.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper; Book shows slight rubbing of panels/spine, slight bumping of corners/ends, name in pen on inner front panel, dustwrapper shows very lightly soiled panels, browning of spine/panel edges, J. C. In pen on front flap. Please Note: This book has been… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1964. Paperback. Good. 1964. First Penguin Edition. 262 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. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking… Read more about this item

Hamish Hamilton; London., 1962. First printing thus. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Very good in like dust jacket. 8vo. 8".. Very good in like dust jacket. DJ a touch dust marked. 257pp.

New York: Knopf, 1960 Hardcover, cloth; 8vo.,257pp Small spot of discoloration topedge. Tight. Lightly used D/j with two tiny edgetears,minor wear top of spine panal.Else, Near Fine in Good, unclipped D/j in jacket protector.

Hamish Hamilton, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Book Bumped and rubbed, Closed tear to tail of spine. Boards marked. Otherwise a nice copy. Item Type: Book. Category: Fiction; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 002662. .

Penguin Books, 1964. Paperback. Good. 1964. First Edition Thus. 261 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. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, September 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Black boards with gilt lettering are in very good conditons, pages are beginning to tan. First Edition, third printing. Dust jacket is price clipped and has rubbing and discoloration; now covered in protective mylar sleeve.

Bantam Books (Mm), 1968. Eighteenth. Paperback. Very good, some warping from storage.