Blanche Williams Introduction (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, NY. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Retired Friends University library copy. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for library stamps on the title page and acknowledge page. Book Condition: Fair; missing a piece of spine at head; wear through fabric at tail and tips; index label on spine; moisture stain to top edges of boards; pocket and check out slip on front endpapers. No DJ. Dark blue cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the front board; gilt worn on the spine; floral endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 260 pp 12mo. This book is noted for being the second publication of The Killers by Ernest Hemingway with a first being Scribner's Magazine March 1927. This anthology highlights top American magazine fiction from 1927, featuring stories recognized for their literary merit. It includes one of Hemingway's most celebrated short stories, "The Killers," which follows two hit men searching for a former boxer, featuring recurring character Nick Adams. The volume contains a mix of realist, urban, war, and regional stories, besides The Killers are The Scarlet Woman by Louis Bromfield and Child of God by Roark Bradford. The volume was selected by the members of the Society of Arts and Sciences and is a crucial, early anthology representing 1920s American literature, often categorized within the O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories series. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. Corners have been bumped a bit. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Darkening to the page edges. Previous owner's name(s) inside. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. Hardcover without jacket. Blue cover, gold lettering on spine and front cover, published by Doubleday and Doran in 1926. Slight cover wear, gift inscription on first page else interior like new. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Full blue cloth with paste on labels to both front board and spine. There is mild shelf wear and the front free endpage is missing else Very Good. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Entire issue in original green wraps with simulated paper label, light general wear-only, spine sunned, small nick at top of front wrap, occasional nicks at spine as noted in pictures. A generally clean, bright copy of the very scarce wraps edition. See Hanneman E14.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Volume one, part one only. 12mo. 147pp. Pictorial orange wrappers. Page edges lightly soiled, small chipping on wrapper edges, very good. Contributions by Margaret Prescott Montague, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ben Ames Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Edison Marshall, Grances Gilchrist Wood, Melville Davisson Post, Thomas Grant Springer.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Thus. & 12 B/W illustrations on unpaged leaves as well as 4 page publisher's advertising section at rear . Bibliography, HBDJ, Stated Published November 1928., 1st Edition THUS, DATES Match on Title & Copyright pg ,VG- BK/ POOR DJ ,HALF LEATHER EDITION. xxii, 520, [4] pages. Hardcover: H 18.5cm x L 12.5cm. Dark RedOrange dust jacket with rubbed and soiled front and rear panels Detached from one another as spine panel is mostly PERISHED; DJ protected ClearMylar. Quarter leather binding; with Dark Green Cloth, Green leather spine with bright gilt stamping, CVR spine ENDS well scuffed and Frayed . Green cloth boards. Top edge GOLD gilt. Toning to fore-edge and bottom edge; Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm Light wer Fox. A very good- copy in a POOR dust jacket. Also laid-in are three colored slips of paper (presumably contemporary to the book (i.e. circa 1928) offering Post Office Christmas warnings and admonitions regarding unsolicited mail and the like.FEW TINY DOGEASRED PGS 7 Light Fox. ,INCLUDES Oval Portrait, Balloon Hoax, Metzengerstein, Gold Bug, Pit & Pendulum, Purloined Letter, Oblong Box, Facts in Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat , ETC.