Bubble Gum Kipling by Mayer Tom (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tight clean book, unmarked byt for initials and date to ffep. In rubbed dj.; Author's first Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First published 1964 stated. Book is solid VG--clean, not shaken. Dust jacket is good plus, with some small tears, some chipping to edges, and a small area of abrasian at lower spine area, but clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: The Viking Press, (1964). First edition, first printing. "First published in 1964 by the Viking Press, Inc." statement to the copyright page, $3.95 to the jacket's flap. The 'Homecoming', one of the nine stories in this collection earned an O. Henry Award. The expert pilot, English professor and author's first book is a collection of interconnected stories, some spiced with humor, featuring Jerry Gordon as he grows up, and continually learns life lessons, and into adulthood. He is his brother's trainer for a grudge fight, engages in his first rodeo, deals with his father's death, sees that a bar fight has real blood, and more. Fine in khaki linen with orange and burgundy embossed titles to the spine, upper page edges burgundy; in a near fine dust jacket with a short creased tear to the upper front panel edge, and slight fading to the spine panel. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after scanning for this entry.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. pp 181. red boards, gilt. Fine in Very Good protected dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Author's first book (collection of short stories connected with the same Protagonist). This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1964. 181 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A collection of linked stories set in the American Southwest by a young Chicago-born writer who moved to New Mexico. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A collection of stories. The author's first book. First edition. Trace foxing to paste-downs, else very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 181pp.; HB palebeige w/brwn.&orange; some rub w/lt.spotting,ft.cover; dent,tp.foredge; clean,tight pgs. DJ orange w/white-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; scuffed w/1x2"tear/chip,tp.spine; 1"tear/fold,bttm.spine; spine sunned; corner-cut. "With the publication of this connected group of stories, Viking takes particular pride in introducing a very young writer of very special ability.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket.

Octavo, 181 pp., cloth-backed boards. First edition. The author's first book. A collection of linked stories set in the American Southwest by a young Chicago-born writer who moved to New Mexico. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to red background ink on rear panel. (#134239).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1965 The Bodley Head Hardcover 1st UK Edition 1st Impression. Near Fine clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket.

Condition: Good. Minor shelfwear to dustjacket and its extremities, minor shelfwear to extremities of bookcovers, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarter leather gilt and marbled papercovered boards. Some rubbing and skinned a little at the crown, near fine. A publisher's presentation binding, usually prepared during this era for the author and sometimes for the editor. Quite likely this would have been the author's own copy.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.