Holiday by Middleton (86 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Acceptable. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. The book is perfectly readable and fit for use, although it shows signs of previous ownership. The spine is likely creased and the cover scuffed or slightly torn. Textbooks will typically have an amount of underlining and/or highlighting, as well as notes. If this book is over 5 years old, then please expect the pages to be yellowing or to have age spots. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Booker Prize-winning novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia', Stanley Middleton. Rejacketed and republished for the anniversary of its 1974 win.THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia'.Edwin Fisher has fled to a seaside resort of his childhood past to try to come to terms with the death of his baby son and the collapse of his marriage to Meg. On this strange and lonely holiday, as he seeks to understand what went wrong, Edwin must find somea way to think about what he has been and decide upon where he can go next.______________________________________'At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily recognizable. The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour.' A.S. Byatt'We need Stanley Middleton to remind us what the novel is about. Holiday is vintage Middleton. One has to look at nineteenth-century writing for comparable storytelling.' Sunday Times THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in boards. Minor edgewear to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with photographs. ; Jazz Masters Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

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Paperback (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: NEW.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good in soiled grey pictorial cloth. Illustrated by Frank Gillett. 15084.

Condition: NEW.

Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue boards with silver titles to the spine. text block edge has some toning otherwise clean pages and firm binding. The jacket is not price clipped. Second impression November 1974. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. One of 350 signed, numbered copies of the first chapter. In fine matching slipcase. This was part of a project printing first chapters of Booker Prize winning novels in lavish editions with original artwork. Proceeds benefited a South African house caring for children with AIDS and HIV. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp 42. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered on white labels on spine and front cover. Signed presentation copy on the title page. First chapter of the elusive 1974 Booker prize winner Limited edition of 350 copies, this being no. 174. First chapter series. ISBN: 0955014689 Fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Volume 3 of the Oak Tree Fine Press Booker 1st Chapter Series in matching slipcase. Limited edition 323/350. Signed by author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Stanley Middleton (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Chapter of the Booker winning novel, issued in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies signed by Stanley Middleton on the title page and a further 35 copies in the deluxe edition( Roman Numeral copies) which were signed and dated to the title page. This is the latter and is XXVIII of the Deluxe 35 edition it comes complete with the folder containing artwork signed by Stanley Middleton, the artwork is also numbered XXVIII/XXXV. Typography, design and layout by Laurance Cramer. Printed on 160 gsm Naturalis Absolute White paper by Ultra Litho in Johannesburg. Bound in Brillianta bookcloth with printed labels on front board and spine. All contained in a matching slipcase. [Stanley Middleton 21 iii 2007]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Blue boards with silver titles to the spine. Signed and inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. The jacket is not price clipped. Second impression November 1974. A rare early signed copy which has been signed in the year of publication. Signed by Author(s).

Second impression. Octavo. pp [vi], 240. Booker Prize winner.Tail of spine slightly bumped, otherwise fine in very near fine dustwrapper slightly creased at tail of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, with publisher's promotional bellyband. The second printing of the joint Booker Prize Winner (with The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer) in 1974.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description : First edition, first printing with second impression dust jacket. A university lecturer, Edwin Fisher takes a solitary holiday to a sea resort of his childhood to come to terms with the collapse of his marriage and to find a way forward. Condition : Excellent condition. Text clean and bright throughout. Second state dust jacket which is bright with very light creases at the edges, however with no marks or fading. A lovely copy. Size : 205mm x 135mm.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Superb Fine example of the book. Not price clipped. A very good wrapper with a production fault to the laminate on the front panel, running diagonally. Also included is the rare signed edition of the first chapter of STANLEY MIDDLETON's fantastic Booker Prize winning book HOLIDAY. This Deluxe edition which cost £175 from the publisher, comprises of a hand signed and dated hard back edition signed and dated (number 92) by the author to the title page and numbered from an edition of just 150 together with a separate archival print inspired by the book featuring one of Middleton's 's lovely watercolours which is also signed and numbered by the author. The artwork comes in a linen bound folder, which together with the book are contained within a bespoke linen bound slipcase. A nice set.

First edition, first printing. Joint Booker Prize winner. Replaced endpapers, otherwise fine in near fine slightly spine faded dustjacket.

1st edition, 2nd impression. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Aditional scans etc. On request. ; 239 pages; Physical desc.: 239 p. Subject: Fiction -- Fiction in English. Booker Prize Winner. Complete with [loose] sash advertising Middleton as the 'Joint winner of the £5000 Booker Prize.' Notes: The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. The work takes place entirely within the mind of Fisher, with much of the book's development dealing with the painful realities of Fisher's mind and life. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 255. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine. The elusive Booker prize winnner. Loosely inserted is a good signed handwritten letter from Stanley Middleton to his (later) friend and fellow novelist June Wedgwood Benn ( June Barraclough) - "Many thanks for your kind letter of congratulations I'm glad you like 'Holiday' it's not too bad. In spite of my many defects Ð changing black hair to white without a by-your leave and making fun of lecturers in the philosophy of education. Non olet pecuniae, eh? Best wishes Stanley Middleton.' It is dated 8 December 1974 on Sherwood Nottingham notepaper in an envelope addressed by SM to JWB's address in Blackheath London. ISBN: 0091199107 Near fine in very good d/w with faint tanning at white rear and very small cip at foot of spine. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. First edition, first impression.

1st edition, 2nd impression. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Aditional scans etc. On request. ; 239 pages; Physical desc.: 239 p. Subject: Fiction -- Fiction in English. Booker Prize Winner. Complete with [loose] sash advertising Middleton as the 'Joint winner of the £5000 Booker Prize.' Notes: The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. The work takes place entirely within the mind of Fisher, with much of the book's development dealing with the painful realities of Fisher's mind and life. 1 Kg.

A first edition, first printing, published by Hutchinson in 1974. A fine book. Clean internally with very light bumping to the base of the spine. In a good, unclipped wrapper, marred only by a crease running vertically down the front cover. Joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974; An extremely subtle story which is a consummate portrait of English provincial life told with all Stanley Middleton's artistry and depth of feeling.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Silver lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Joint winner of the 1974 Booker prize and one of the hardest Bookers to find, especially in fine condition. Creases to top edge of the jacket. Some minor edgewear o/w a fine copy of a uncommon book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. One of the scarcest of the Booker Prize winners, this novel shared the award with Nadine Gordimer's *The Conservationist* in 1974. Seldom encountered, especially in this condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression of the joint winner of the 1974 Booker Prize; signed and inscribed to the title page (in the year of publication) by the author; rarely seen signed. Very Good+: firm and square binding in sharp blue cloth; bright silver lettering to the spine; light foxing to the edge of the page block and a touch of sporadic spotting to the endpapers; else crisp and clean. The unclipped, first state dustwrapper (£2.75 net stated) is Very Good: bright and vibrant and with no fading; rubbed to the spine tips and corners; two closed tears to the head of the spine (1cm and 8mm), sealed to the verso with professional mending tissue; vertical crease to the rear flap and a crease to both corners of the front flap; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. A nice copy with the distinction of Middleton's signature and inscription. All orders are sent carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. Signed by Author(s).