The Set-Up

NY: Covici Friede, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed, limited edition of this quintessential Jazz Age narrative poem by an early New Yorker editor and author of another of the era's signature poems, The Wild Party (1926). Written in terse rhyming couplets, The Set-Up concerns an aging Black boxer, Pansy Jones, who is coerced into throwing… Saber más sobre este artículo

London : Martin Secker, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. No Edition Remarks. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Staining to rear board. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Boards are… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Covici Friede, 1928. FIRST LIMITED EDITION of 275 copies. This is No. 161/275. Signed by Joseph Moncure March on the limitation page. Original tan linen cloth backstrip over bright red, black and yellow art-deco style patterned paper boards. Yellow printed paper spine label and yellow endpapers. With the illustrations of Alexander King. Fine, very bright and fresh copy.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Covici Fried, 1928. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 275 copies numbered and signed by the author. The present copy is number 146. unopened, 184pp., illustrated by Alexander King. A poem about a black boxer who had just been released from prison. This book was made into a movie. Bound in 1/4 beige cloth over decorative paper covered… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Martin Secker, 1929. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5.5 x 8.75in. 199pp. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD. Shows the spine ever so slightly tanned, endpapers with the slightest hint of toning, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

New York:: Covici Friede,, (1928). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good overall in red and black decorative paper covered boards with a beige cloth spine, paper label on spine - a bit of wear to the edges of the boards, inscription on first blank page, but a tight and sturdy copy. . Limited, signed first edition.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Covici Friede,, 1928. Signed limited edition, number 91 of 275 copies signed by the author, illustrated by Alexander King, and bound in quarter cloth. March's story of an African-American prize fighter, perhaps inspired by the real-life example of Jack Johnson, is an acute portrayal of race relations during the Roaring Twenties. A trade edition was also published… Saber más sobre este artículo

Covici-Friede, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd printing without a DJ; striking silhouette of a boxer on the front and black lettering on the spine of gray cloth bound boards

New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. March (1899-1971) had an early career at "The New Yorker" magazine, then worked as a screenwriter. This epic poem about an ageing African-American boxer was the basis for the 1949 film directed by Robert Wise (the book is dedicated to Sue Wise). Many books have been made into films but Quercus believes few of them were… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Covici Friede. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Spine sunned, spine head frayed, light cock, tone, owner's bookplate, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; March's gripping, hard-boiled, narrative poem of an African-American boxer's tragedy. A best-seller, First Edition, Fifth Printing, in the same year as the first.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Covici Friede,, 1928.. Hardcover -. Good only in illustrated yellow cloth (wear to edges and corners, some loss at top of spine and a short tear to the side of spine, but contents are clean, binding is straight and sturdy) . 6th printing (just one month after the first) A story in verse, set in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Covici Friede. G. 1928. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Stated third printing bound in gray cloth with a black silhouette desi gn and black spine lettering. 184 pages. A Good copy. Rubs/frays to th e spine tips and corners. Moderate hand soiling to the cloth covers. There is an inked gift inscription on the entire front endpaper. Minor … Saber más sobre este artículo

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-fine with a touch of shelf wear, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with minor wear at the corners and a repaired closed tear at the top of the spine. An excellent copy of… Saber más sobre este artículo

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Hardback. New.

New York: Covici Friede, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo., 184pp, Sharp First Trade Edition of this classic poem about an African American boxer, made into the 1949 Film Noir of the same title starring Robert Ryan. Also published in a signed limited edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild page edge… Saber más sobre este artículo

London : Martin Secker, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. This Edition. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Limited to 2000 copies; this copy not numbered. Rough-cut pages. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters, exposing netting and causing some very slight looseness… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Covici Friede, 1928. Spine ends worn.. Third Printing. Original Cloth. Good.

New York: Covici, Friede, 1928. 1st Trade Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG+. 8vo. Black lettered grey cloth with the image of a prize fighter on the front panel. This is duplicated on the dust jacket. This is a long poem about an African American prize fighter that was made into a significant film noir movie starring Robert Ryan and Audrey… Saber más sobre este artículo