Search Results: hamlet had an uncle a comedy by cabell branch

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940 271 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red topstain, eps cream; a.e. tanned, light stain f.e. Cover: red, gilt logo front, black titles spine; modest shelfwear, head/heel curved, fade spot to head, small light spot back. DJ: clipped in Brodart, graphic art and reverse titles front/spine, back is white w/ blue text; front panel detached, archival quality internal repair, edge wear, head chipped, spine faded, a few small closed tears. We have a substantial Cabell collection.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940 271 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red topstain, eps cream; a.e. and eps tanned. Cover: red, gilt logo front, black titles spine; modest shelfwear, head/heel curved, spine lightly tanned. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, graphic art and reverse titles front/spine, back is white w/ blue text; edge wear, head point snad corners chipped, spine faded, a few small closed tears and medium chips. We have a substantial Cabell collection.

Farrar & Rinehart, 1940-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Small stains on rear hinge. Gift inscription on ffep. Dj quite shelf worn with scuffs, soiling & small tears repaired with tape on inner side. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

London: Bodley Head. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Paged darkening. Multiple chips and tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Cabell on the limitations page. Copy #92 of 125. .

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1940. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Clippings affixed on three endpapers, thus only good in attractive, very good dustwrapper with a little sunning and very small chips at the spine.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. Spine sunned. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Child, Charles. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wildside Press. Hardcover. New. 8x5x0.

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

John Lane, The Bodley Head: London, 1940. First British edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. ''First published in England 1940'' on copyright page. Page edges browning, a VG+ copy in a VG dustjacket with fingernail-size chips at both bottom corners.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1940. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges with loss to the foot of the spine, with consequential sunning to the spine of the binding. Leans slightly. The contents lightly toned with age. . Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with yellow titling to the spine) Physically 7½” x 5” (0.7 kg); (xvi) 269 (1 ads.)pp; 2nd impression, first published the same year. Includes: List of principal characters; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #194213|| Condition:

New York Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Charles Child. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), red cloth with black lettering on spine & small gold circle with rampant horse on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of a crowned long haired king, [xxiv] + [271] pages. James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare." Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. The author's Heirs and Assigns trilogy consisted of this volume: HAMLET HAD AN UNCLE (1940), The King Was in His Counting House (1938), ad The First Gentleman of America… Read More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. Fine. 9" by 6.5". Charles Child. A scarce signed limited edition of Branch Cadell's retelling of Hamlet. The second work in his 'Heirs and Assigns' trilogy. Number thirty-seven of one-hundred and twenty-five limited edition copies signed by the author, with only ninety-nine of these ever made available for sale.With a small number of illustrated vignettes by Charles Child.Cabell viewed his novel as a retelling of the true story behind Hamlet, basing his tale on the work of Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus.Kirkus Reviews termed this a 'slightly salacious' retelling. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. The majority of the leaves are unopened to the fore edge. Fine

Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: FARRAR, RINEHART. No slipcover. Gilt top. Copy # 117 out of 125. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1940.

London: Bodley Head. London, Bodley Head, 1940. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy in a fine jacket. The book is faded, non-uniformly. A bit foxed. Jacket is lovely, with just a little chip. [10195, Hyraxia Books]. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1940.