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Harcourt, Brace & World, 1948. NEAR FINE/VG. Gray cloth with blue to front and spine. Patterned Harcourt Brace endpapers. "quarrrels" on p. 223, "P.10.62" on copyright page. Price intact ($2.50) mylar sleeved jacket has a horizontal crease top front, couple tiny tears. Harcourt Brace Modern Classics series. 451 pp.

New York: Modern Library. 1932 (only date given). EX Vance AFB Library with stamps, card pocket etc. Unclipped ($1.45) plastic protected Jacket taped to boards. ML 201. Binding tight. 823 pp, 8 pages of ads in back.

New York: Henry Holt. 1928. Apparent 1st edition, copyright 1928 only print info given. Preface, general Introduction and notes preceding each story in English, stories themselves are in ITALIAN. Selected and edited by Marraro, instructor in Italian at Columbia University. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by author ffep "To ______ with the compliments of Howard R. Marraro 12/7/28." Tight, clean unmarked interior. Light green… Read more about this item

Lippincott, 1960. "W" on copyright page. Small black Book Club indentation rear board. No other printing info given. No DJ. Gray cloth over green gray stamped at spine. Faint corner crease to two pre-story pages, one of which has a tiny piece out at edge, else an excellent unmarked copy. Appears unread. 296 pp.

Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1929. Purple cloth boards, paper label glued to the spine which is sunned/faded and has a few spots. Former owner name and date fep, unmarked otherwise, binding tight, minor edge wear to boards (no fraying). Solid VG copy, no DJ. 432 pp.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co. 1951. Outstanding copy, appears unread. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine bright and vibrant, not faded at all. No creasing to pages which are also bright and white, including endpapers and pastedowns. Listing as Near Fine rather than Fine only because minor rubs and scuffs to black cloth boards. Deckled fore and foot edges.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First edition, 1st printing with numberline. Ex-Library with typical stamps, stickers and accompaniments, couple marks top edge. Binding strong, text pages clean and unmarked. Small spot rubbed through cloth upper rear edge. Plastic covered dust jacket taped to boards, has a tear at rear but flap not clipped with $12.50 price present. Jim Dine… Read more about this item

Tulsa, OK: Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1989. VERY GOOD. Solid, clean, tight copy. Minor creasing to front wrap, minimal wear otherwise, no other mention worthy issues. Poetry and fiction, Photos, drawings, etchings, other artworks. First edition. Careful, secure packaging, prompt shipping. 148 pp.

Meridian, 2nd edition, 2nd Meridian printing 1960. Name penned inside front wrap, else clean/unmarked copy with minor wear. 502 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First printing, stated. Front hinge starting, still secure. Unmarked white pages. Clipped jacket with losses at corners and spine ends, small piece out lower front (see pic), now in mylar sleeve. VG+/VG. Illustrated with photographs. 271 numbered pages.

1931 only date given. Red cloth boards with silver and dark gray to front and spine. Previous owner name and date front pastedown, no other markings noted, no apparent wear. Straight and square. Price intact ($4.50) dustwrapper with couple of tiny chips and short closed tears, now protected in Brodart sleeve. Eight full-page illustrations. "Great Illustrated Classics, TITAN EDITIONS".… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. Illustrated Junior Library. FINE/FAIR. Excellent copy, unmarked, straight and square. One corner crimp found. Mylar covered dust jacket has a 2" tear front wrap, losses here and there particularly at head of spine. Blue and green leaf pattern on a beige/tan ground front and rear, blue at spine. Fritz Eichenberg illustrations. Color illustrated endpapers. 244 numbered… Read more about this item

AS NEW First edition 1st printing in a NF lightly shelfworn dust jacket. 363 pp.

Meridian Books/Greenwich Editions. Hardcover in dust jacket. FINE/VERY GOOD+. Unmarked book with no apparent wear. Price-clipped DJ with small abrasion rear wrap, sunned spine and minor edge wear. Now in Brodart sleeve, presents well. Essays on painters Watteau, Chardin, Rembrandt, Gustave Moreau and Monet, writers Goethe, Chateaubriand, Joubert, Tolstoi, Dostoievski, others. Translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 416 pp.

Light bump to part of spine heel, small red dot lower edge otherwise an outstanding copy in a price clipped ($2.95 price sticker present) dust jacket with a few closed tears and chips to the front panel (as pictured), now in a new Brodart sleeve. Red cloth boards with black info at the spine, red topstain. Copyright 1926 only publishing… Read more about this item

First edition, 1st printing stated. Hardcover in mylar sleeved dustwrapper. Small PO name front endpaper otherwise an excellent FINE copy in an edgeworn chipped and torn (price intact, $5.00) jacket. 2" tear tape-mended head of DJ spine. FINE/VG-. 421 pp.

Nobel Prize Edition, February 1929. "The Bridal Wreath", "The Mistress of Husaby" and "The Cross" in one volume. Binding starting at rear, still holding. Spine sunned, some staining to boards. Old bookplate ffep. 386 pp.

Very slight spine lean, small elegant PO name first blank page, otherwise an excellent copy, appears unread. No DJ, no slipcase. Sandglass laid in. NF. 331 pages with color Bernard Lamotte illustration after, his illustrations throughout. Justin O'Brien introduction.

Heritage Press, NY, no DJ as issued, no slipcase. 1955. First Thus, 4to - 11" tall. Light tanning around board edges, small elegant PO name ffep, AS NEW otherwise. "The story of King Arthur & his noble knights of the round table, first printed by William Caxton, now modernised, as to spelling and punctuation, by A.W. Pollard, illustrated with wood… Read more about this item

First edition. Softcover. Slight spine lean, couple tiny tears heel of spine, two short closed tears front wrap of jacket. No marks, only minor wear. DJ has some chipping at spine ends. Deckled edges. NF/VG. Outstanding illustrations by Robert Hogfeldt. 334 pp.