Edited George Jean Nathan (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Extremities of DJ sun-faded.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Quarto wrappers. xxxii, 129-255pp., xxxiii-lxiv. Scattered foxing, yapped edges worn and torn, good only. Contributions by H.L. Mencken, W.M. Walker, Wm. Allen Pusey, John Walker Harrington, Ruth Lechlitner, Duff Gilfond, Robert Joyce Tasker, Charles Angoff, Sadakichi Hartmann, Cornelia H. Dam, Idwal Jones, Emily Clark, Dewey M. Owens, Chloe Arnold, W.A.S. Douglas, Mary J. Elmendorf, Karl Schriftgiesser, and George Jean Nathan.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Owner initials else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.

1925. (Periodical) Very good. 385-510pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, dampstain on edge of first 8 pages, edges chipped. April 1925. Contributors include James M. Cain (Servants of the People), George E. DeMille (Poe As a Critic), Carl Dreher (The Psychopathology of Business), Ernesto Montenegro (The Heirs of Bolivar), G. Frederick Pelham (Adventures Among Union Men). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about Simon Bolivar & Edgar Allan Poe. (Essays).

1925. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Spine lightly faded, spine wear at top and bottom, 1 inch piece missing from top of spine. March 1925. Contributors include Herbert Asbury (The Passing of the Gangster), Max Eastman (On Learning Foreign Languages), Patrick Kearney (The Fountain of Spiritualism), Fred Lewis Pattee (James Fenimore Cooper). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about James Fenimore Cooper. (Essays, Spiritualism).

1925. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped. February 1925. Contributors include Herbert Asbury (Up from Methodism), James Branch Cabell (Above Paradise (A Story)), Barrett H. Clark (George Moore at Work), Edgar Lee Masters (John Peter Altgeld), Louise Pound (Walt Whitman Neologisms), Charles C. Thach (The Monroe Doctrine), Owen P. White (A Glance at the Mexicans). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about George Moore & Walt Whitman. (Essays).

1924. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped. October 1924. Contributors include Franz Boas (The Question of Racial Purity), W.E. Burghardt Debois (The Dilemma of the Negro), Morris Fishbein (Birth Control: An Unsolved Problem), Lewis Momford (Devastated Regions). Edited by George Jean Nathan. (Essays).

1924. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Spine lightly faded. July 1924. Contributors include Homer H. Cooper (Where the Law Fails), Isaac R. Pennypacker (The Dutch on the Delaware), Carl Sandburg (M'liss and Louie (A Poem)), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Wages of Peace). Edited by George Jean Nathan. (Essays).

1924. (Periodical) Very good. 385-510pp. Covers faded, light spine wear at top and bottom, spine partly separated from magazine. April 1924. Contributors include Harry Elmer Barnes (Woodrow Wilson), Gamaliel Bradford (Horace Greeley), Joseph Hergesheimer (Lillian Gish), James R. Stevens (The Uplift on the Frontier). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about Lillian Gish, Horace Greeley & Woodrow Wilson. (Essays).

1924. (Periodical) Very good. 257-383pp. Covers faded, very slight water stain to edges of last 3 pages. March 1924. Contributors include Arthur Davison Ficke (Reflections of a Bible-Reader), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Every Science an Exact Science), Arthur Bingham Walkley (Mansfield Park and America), Stephen French Whitman (Cretheus and the Lion (A Story)). Edited by George Jean Nathan. (Essays).

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book club edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Octavo. xv, 368pp. Pages lightly age-toned, near fine in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and tears along the extremities. Bernard Malamud's first book appearance with "The Prison". Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at length in the Foreword, and contains stories by Roger Angell, Nathan Asch, Peggy Bennett, Mary Bolté, Hortense Calisher, Leonard Casper, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Harris Downey, Elizabeth Enright, J. Carol Goodman, Ethel Edison Gordon, William Goyen, Shirley Jackson, Josephine W. Johnson, Ilona Karmel, Oliver La Farge, George Lanning, Ethel G. Lewis, Dorothy Livesay, Robie Macauley, Bernard Malamud, Esther Patt, J.F. Powers, Paul Rader, Jean Stafford, Ray B. West, Jr., and Tennessee Williams.

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).

Softcover. Mixed Editions. Octavo, four volumes. In Fair condition. Paperback bindings. Spines brownish beige with black lettering. Covers have moderate plus wear including modest sunning, slight soiling and several instances of chips to the edges. Pictorial green front and rear covers. Text blocks have moderate wear including age toning to the edges, few chips to the edges and some foxing to the interiors. Previous owner's information in red ink to volume two to the title page. Illustrated. Mixed editions. Fragile condition. CONTENTS: Vol. One, "January 1924, Volume I, Number 1", 127 pages -- Vol. Two, "February 1924, Volume I, Number 2", viii, [126] pages -- Vol. Three, "March 1924, Volume I, Number 3", viii, [126], xvi pages -- Vol. Four, "April 1924, Volume I, Number 4", xii, [125], xx pages NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #1. 1389495. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. BOOK: Brown Balloon Cloth; Spine 7 (31-39); gold leaping torchbearer on front; gold on spine is worn off; bright orange Kent endpapers; light brown top-stain. RARE SURVIVING Maroon and light green DJ is covered in mylar and lists 242 titles inside and on the back; inch missing on bottom spine; chips along top and bottom spine corners (see scan). SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF ExCELLENCE.