Alien by Edwin Rosskam (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Grossman Publishers, 1964; stated first edition; 209pp. Very good hardcover, in good dust jacket, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light rubbing to gently bumped corners of black cloth boards and ends of spine; grey, purple, and orange titling remains bright and bold. Some tearing and small chips along top edge of unclipped ($4.50) dust jacket; toning to spine; light rubbing. Interior is free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Good plus or better, light general wear, spine lightly cocked First Printing Cloth Lightly worn, edgetorn jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 209 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Good to very good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. First Edition / First Printing. Note: The jacket does show some light wear and rubbing to the edges and extremities. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket is price clipped and has a few very small tears, with shelf wear to top and bottom of spine.

1st edition, 1st printing. First novel about an eccentric Montana native choosing to live in a Puerto Rican slum. Bright tight cclean copy of HB 1st. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4, 209 pp, gray endpapers. NFine unmarked, in VG+ unclipped jacket. Hardback in navy cloth boards, in color illus jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked. Full cloth binding. 209pp. Unclipped dust jacket is shelf rubbed. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Grossman hardcover with dust jacket, 1964, 1st edition/1st printing, jacket price intact, clean/tight, No marks/tears or signs of use, minimal wear, Near Fine/Near Fine. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing, stated. Minimal wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Tight unmarked book in dust jacekt with touches of shelfwear, now in protective mylar sleeve. Author's first novel.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket has chunks missing, but is otherwise intact, with both flaps. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 18105. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Signed by author with small drawings on half title page. Some shelf wear, otherwise good. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Grossman, New York, 1964. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($4.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a toning on the spine, a short closed tear, and rubbing (as pictured). Very faint foxing on side edge. F1800A.

ROSSKAM, Edwin. THE ALIEN. NY: Grossman Publishers, 1964. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Editon. Signed presentation from Rosskam on the half-title-page: "For Peter and Ida, with my greatest affection. Their friend, Ed Rosskam. Oct. 1964." Very good; spine browned (small chips & tears) d/j. $50.00.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket. Rosskam's first and only novel, of an American intellectual in Puerto Rico, inspired by the life of Rosskam and the Shahns' mutual friend and FSA colleague Jack Delano. Rosskam and his wife Louise, Ben and Bernarda Shahn all worked together in the photography section of the Farm Security Administration, and later in the Office of War Information, where they produced some of the most memorable images during what has become known as the "Golden Age" of documentary photography. Signed.