Short takes With a memoir of the author by Don Iddon de Damon Runyon - 1948

Constable & Robinson, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. First Edition. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Green 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 light marking and tanning.

Constable, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. First Edition Thus. 278 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

London : Constable, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 278 pages ; 19cm. Subjects: American wit and humour.

London: Constable, 1948. [Short Stories] FIRST UK EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.278 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pale green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy. Jacket toned to spine with a water stain, and light spotting to panels. Near fine.