The Better Part by Reed, Kit - 1970

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967T. hardcover. Very Good. 1.0000 8.0000 5.5000.

Signet Book, 1970. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967. Near fine (the top 1/16th of an inch of the cover is lightly sunned) in very good dust jacket (1 small closed tear on back panel, a few scratches; see scan; looks good in Brodart cover). Martha, the central character, whose voice we hear throughout the novel, is a girl whose father is the head of a correctional institution for girls, in which Martha has lived all her life, feeling a prisoner herself. Writer's third novel.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 1967. Book is in good condition. Boards and bindings are strong. Text is clean and unmarked. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. DJ shows light shelf and edge wear.

New York: Farrar, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Pages tinted light brown from age, clean text. Clean black cloth cover. Edges of spine bumped. Dustwrapper yellow on edges. Dustwrapper shelf rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with some edgewear.

GB: Hutchinson, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine/nrFine DW.

mass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The dust jacket has wear to the bottom of the spine panel, a half inch closed tear, with tape reinforcement, on the top of the rear panel, and a small area of abrasion at the site of the closed tear ($4.95). First Edition Stated. Signed by the author on the title page.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95), lime green topstain; [10],208pp. Light wear to jacket margins, brief soil at foot of jacket spine panel, remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, boards very slightly bowed, prior owner's signature on front free endpaper, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. The prolific author's Bildungsroman about young Mart Ewald growing up in the correctional facility her father runs. Kit Reed is today best known for her feminist science fiction stories for which she has thrice been nominated for a James Tiptree Jr. Award.