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Publication Date: 1932
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 25 pages.
Published by The Literary Guild, NY, 1932
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. 26pp, printed on fine glossy paper, stapled booklet, with illustrations throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. In a protective mylar sleeve. LITERATURE.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1924. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Covers faded. February 1924. Contributors include Sherwood Anderson (Caught), Emory Holloway (More Light on Whitman), Gerald W. Johnson (The Ku-Kluxer), Eugene O'Neill (All God's Chillun Got Wings (A Play)), Howell Sykes (The Part-Time Missionary), Carl van Doren (The Comic Patriot). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about Walt Whitman. (Essays).
Published by The Plimpton Press, [unknown], 1940
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Issued in full heavy cloth with paper label on the front cover, original glassene dust jacket is present and complete with only small chips at the extremities. Previous owner's stamped name on the endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1924. (Periodical) Very good. 127pp. Covers faded. January 1924. Contributors include Theodore Dreiser (Four Poems), James Gibbons Huneker (Huneker on Huneker), John McClure (The Weaver's Tale), Margaret Munsterberg (Santayana at Cambridge), John W. Owens (The Tragic Hiram), Isaac R. Pennypacker (The Lincoln Legend), Carl van Doren (Stephen Crane). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about George Santayana. (Essays).
Published by Privately printed at The Plimpton Press, 1940
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Inscribed by Alfred A. Knopf to his future wife Helen Hedrick on the ffep. Boards in green cloth. The paper title labels on the spine and front cover are soiled. Spine faded. A few pages show soiling. Frontispiece portrait of AAK by Carl Van Vechten. Designed by W. A. Dwiggins. pp. 52, [1]. A tribute to Alfred A. Knopf and his friends, from fellow-members of The Book Table, including contributions from Carl Van Doren, Willa Cather, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Mann, Henry Seidel Canby, H. M. Lydenberg, Adolf Kroch, and F. G. Melcher. Inscribed ''For Helen Hedrick / who ornaments the Borzoi / & in the hope that she / will have the success / she deserves. / From her friend / AAK''. Not long after the issue of this quarter century tribute, Knopf published Hedrik's now scarce novel, The Blood Remembers (1941). Hedrick, a resident of southern Oregon, married Knopf on April 20, 1967, becoming his second wife.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1924
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. 128. Bound in three-quarter vellum over decorated boards. Mostly unopened. Light wear to edges. Of an edition limited to 200 copies, this is hand-numbered copy 26. One of 200 large paper copies "specially bound for friends of the editors and publishers." Includes "Four Poems" by Dreiser, and pieces by Carl Van Doren, Hunker, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, James Branch Cabell, et al. An essay by Ernest Boyd titled "Aesthete: Model 1924" caused something of a stir with the avant garde, whom he denounced for taking themselves too lightly, risking a repeat of the history of the '90s. Also, an essay by C. Grant La Farge on architecture. A handsome, presentable copy, scarce in the vellum limited edition. Half-Vellum over Patterned Boards.