First Printings American Authors Volume by Bruccoli Matthew C E Frazer Clark (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. volume 4 only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. New and unread. Condition is graded only Very Good due to a surface scrape (1 inch) and minor rubbing to the front cover. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. This author bibliography provides all the information needed to identify the first editions of 69 collected authors. It has photos of most authors and title page/dust jacket facsimiles. Covers the first editions of Conrad Aiken, Willa Cather, Peter DeVries, Theodore Dresier, William Goyen, Shirley Ann Grau, Randall Jarrell, Walt Kelly, Jerzy Kosinski, Larry McMurtry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Jesse Stuart, William Styron, Allen Tate, Leon Uris, Owen Wister, and 52 others. Includes a cumulative index to First Printings of American Authors (FPAA) volumes 1-4. Endpapers illustrated with many first edition title page reproductions. Bound in the original two tone (light blue and dark blue) cloth, stamped in bright gold. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition, First Printing (so stated. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. 421pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. First Edition, First Printing (so stated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. New and unread. Only minor wear to the cover (like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. This author bibliography provides all the information needed to identify the first editions of 69 collected authors. It has photos of most authors and title page/dust jacket facsimiles. Covers the first editions of Conrad Aiken, Willa Cather, Peter DeVries, Theodore Dresier, William Goyen, Shirley Ann Grau, Randall Jarrell, Walt Kelly, Jerzy Kosinski, Larry McMurtry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Jesse Stuart, William Styron, Allen Tate, Leon Uris, Owen Wister, and 52 others. Includes a cumulative index to First Printings of American Authors (FPAA) volumes 1-4. Endpapers illustrated with many first edition title page reproductions. Bound in the original two tone (light blue and dark blue) cloth, stamped in bright gold. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition, First Printing (so stated. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. 421pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. First Edition, First Printing (so stated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Massively heavy, oversized volumes, four of them. An indispensable collection of four of the five volumes of the influential compendium of American authors and first edition, first printings of their works. All in First Edition, First Printing states, bound in a big, tall, massively heavy quarto hardcover format, two-tone light blue and darker blue cloth over boards format, gilt decoration to front cover, lettering to spines. Plentiful facsimiles. Errata slips tipped-in behind front free endpapaers of the first two volumes. Very slight smudging to page tips at bottom. Each of the four volumes cover the alphabet but in repeating fashion, one volume piled upon another. No dust jackets, as issued. Each volume also features a fine, two-page illustrated endpaper, being black-and-white photographs of the American authors covered therein but also facsimiles of memos, title pages, dust jackets and the like. Volume 1 (1977): xxvii [2], 1-432 pp.; Volume 2 (1978): xvii [2], 2-407 pp.; Volume 3 (1978): xvii [2], 1-412 pp.; Volume 4 (1979): xvii [2], 3-406 pp. All in, a most handsome, useful set indeed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.