Southern Writing from Nooks Of Books

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. [1951]. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full brown cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt (still brilliant). Octavo. 400pps. Stated First Edition. There is a mild bump to the upper rear tip and slight rounding to the faintly-faded spine-ends. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Green and brown boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 353pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a small closed tear at the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Dutton, 1946. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full tan cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in brown. Octavo. 256pps. Stated First Edition. There is mild bumping to a couple of corners, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Atheneum, 1966. Very Good in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full green cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Octavo with red topstain. Olive-green endpapers. 275pps. Stated First Edition. The edges of the cloth are faintly faded and there is dustspotting to the page-edges. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No apparent… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. [1975]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full tan cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in red. Octavo. Red topstain and endpapers. [xxvi] + 309pps., with a frontispiece by Woodi Ishmael. There is a faint bit of foxing in the area of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Uncorrected Proofs. In Near Fine condition. Tan wraps, interestingly produced of stitched signatures. A label bearing the publisher's information about the forthcoming novel is affixed to the front wrap. 146pps. There are a couple of slight ripples in the front wrap, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. The text… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Uncorrected Proofs. In Near Fine condition. Tan wraps, interestingly produced of stitched signatures. A label bearing the publisher's information about the forthcoming novel is affixed to the front wrap. 146pps. There are two faint and unobtrusive specks to the fore-edge, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is… Saber más sobre este artículo

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2006. [2006]. As New in an As New dustjacket. Mustard-yellow boards with a purple, gilt-stamped backstrip. Octavo. 218pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. As New in an As New dustjacket. Bound in full gray cloth. The spine is stamped in white. Duodecimo. Textured tan endpapers. 146pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Random House, 1959. [1959]. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt and gray. Octavo with gold topstain. Blue endpapers. 436pps. Stated First Printing. There is mild rubbing to the tips and the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The textblock is immaculate;… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. [1950]. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 262pps. There is light rubbing to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Scribners, 1935. In Good+ condition. Bound in full brown cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Octavo. 304pps. This volume is the first printing (Scribners 'A' and seal on the copyright page). No dustjacket. Much of the gilt has been rubbed from the cloth and there is a bump to the lower front… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Tan boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 223pps. First British Edition. There is a small soil-mark on the fore-edge, a bookseller's small stamp near the bottom of the ffep., and modest tanning to the endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: McBride, 1929. Very Good in the publisher's black cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front board are stamped in gilt (still brilliant). Quarto. Red topstain. Decorative endpapers. xxi, 376pps., plus 12 tipped-in, tissue-guarded, full-page plates and numerous smaller illustrations by Pape. No dustjacket. Stated First Impression of the First Illustrated Edition (published two years after the original).… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ashland, Kentucky: Economy Printers, 1952. Author's Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Fully bound in green cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. 95pps. There is a crease in the front pastedown (a slight production flaw) and the binding is slightly shaken, though sound, with slim separations between a couple of signatures (more a cosmetic than a structural… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Dutton, 1952. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full russet-brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. 95pps. The top section of the ffep has been clipped off, presumably to divorce it from a previous owner's name or inscription (and quite effectively done). This is an unfortunate flaw as the rest of book is in… Saber más sobre este artículo

North Carolina: Palaemon Press, 1981. Near Fine in a Fine acetate dustjacket. Colorful marbled boards quarterbound in brown morocco. The spine is gilt-stamped. 26pps. This edition limited to 75 SIGNED and numbered copies, of which this is #10. Printed on hand-made Arches paper. There is very faint dustspotting to the fore-edge, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Atlantic, 1997. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. Map endpapers. 356pp. 9th printing edition. There is a touch of very faint soiling to the fore-edge and a mild bump to the lower rear tip, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Atheneum, 1986. Uncorrected Proofs. Near Fine in beige cardstock wraps, trade sized (pb). 309pps. There is a small and shallow crimp at the top corner of the first forty pages, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Knopf, 1972. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Gray boards backed in lavender cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Lavender topstain. Fore-edge untrimmed. 208pps. There is bumping to the spine-ends as well as faint sunning to the extreme edges of the boards. Also, there is a touch of wear to the lower front tip. Otherwise, clean,… Saber más sobre este artículo