Buy this book on-line

BRAINE**, JOHN: : THE VODI

LONDON.EYRE & SPOTTISWODE,1959.

ISBN No ISBN.

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Publisher's Catalogue No. 6/4206.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with b/w photographic part- illustrated front panel of dw/dj with superimposed yellow lettered title,with black and red lettering to remainder of same panel,red lettering with some ubiquitous but slight sunning/fading to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears,no chipping or rubbing present.Top+fore-edges although bright and clean are with some very minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silvered gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate plain white front+rear pastedowns; both font+rear endpapers with inevitable concomitant off-set foxing margins from the dw/dj's inner flaps.UK, 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-283pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title with precis,title page,a dedication,and a prose extract. 'Room at the Top' [1st edn,UK,March 1957] was the study of a man in love with success.In his second novel,'The Vodi', John Braine portrays a very different man. Dick Corvey was still a child when he learnt that the prizes of success were not for him: later he found that there is an even sweeter and more deadly seduction - the love of failure. When the book opens he is sick,perhaps dying.Now of all times it would be easiest to give in,to accept failure as his natural condition.Yet it is now that,for the first time in his life,he begins to fight.On his side there is only one last spark of obstinacy and his desire for a girl whom he will probably never win.But slowly,against all odds,Dick Corvey learns to take his place in the world as a man and to escape at last from the strange childhood fantasy that gives the book its name. The Vodi lives in the dark places of the world: you don't see it but it always there,a gang of little men ruled by one obscene old woman.The Vodi has great power and only one aim: the good must always suffer,the vicious and brutal succeed.When you believe this it explains a lot of things and it has one other great advantage: you can be proud to fail. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.