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Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1963
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edge Wear & Lightly Rubbed.
Published by 1963 Doubleday First Edition, 1963
Seller: Et Al's Read & Unread Books, Wausau, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Very Good black cloth with moderate rubbing & shelfwear & toning at pagination edges in a Very Good just dust jacket with moderate edgewear & some soil rubbing at rear panel. Name penned at front endpaper else bright & unmarked interior.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1963
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 265 pp. , xx. NAP, NO number line: assumed reprint. Dark gray cloth with brilliant silver lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Contents divided into 10 Essays: (1) Harvey Breit, "James Baldwin and Two Footnotes"; (2) Donald Barr, "Ah, Buddy: Salinger"; (3) "Alan Pryce-Jones, "The Fabulist's Worlds: Vladimir Nabokov"; (4) Mark Schorer, "McCullers and Capote: Basic Patterns"; (5) Robert Gorham Davis, "The American Individualist Tradition: Bellow and Styron"; (6) Diana Trilling, "The Radical Moralism of Norman Mailer"; (7) Alan R. Jones, "The World of Love: The Fiction of Eudora Welty"; (8) David L. Stevenson, "James Jones and Jack Kerouac: Novelists of Disjunction"; (9) Granville Hicks, "Generations of the Fifties: Malamud, Gold, and Updike"; (10 John Chamberlain, "The Novels of Mary McCarthy"; Bibliographies, pp. 257-262; Contributors, pp. 263-265. Shiny dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.95) with Title lettering in white letters across top front cover, superimposed over a black band, above a grid of 12 squares on remainder of front cover, each with an Essay and its Author printed, except for top right two squares in orange for Subtitle, other squares in black orange, dark red or lavender. Thin lines of wear across front cover and a bit more wear at spine ends and corners and front cover corners only; 1/2" tear down top edge at 1" from top right corner (Archival tape backing now in place); slight offsetting on endpapers opposite vertical lines of dw panels against inside covers: describes worse than it, but there you have it. Now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives all trespasses. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Way to read a Literature Classic more than 50 years-old.
Published by Doubleday & Company, inc., Garden City, New York, 1963
Book
Cloth. Condition: Good+. A pleasing association copy from the library of author V. S. Pritchett, to whom it is inscribed. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. Blotching to boards, edges tanned. Pritchett's posthumous book label to front pastedown, inscribed by Balakian in blue pen to ffep: "To V. S. Pritchett,/ With highest esteem and warmest regards. Nona Balakian. Dec. 1963." Else, clean. Good+ Nona Balakian (1918-1991) was an Armenian American literary critic, essayist and editor of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Balakian included an essay about V. S. Pritchett in her later essay collection, Critical Encounters (1978). The book label, which includes a facsimile signature, was added posthumously to books in V. S. Pritchett's library.