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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. DJ light edge wear. ; Dustjacket is price clipped. Name in ink on fly leaf.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Taped dj which is covered with plastic. Ink marks on about half-dozen pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket, light fading and light shelf wear, price clipped from inside front corner.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. American First. First Edition stated on verso of title page; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. NYC: Knopf, 1992. 1st edition, F/F. Book and dust jacket have very little wear. Three appendices and an index. "The heart of the book lies in the descriptions of his relationships - rivalries, feuds, friendships and mentorships - with many of the most significant writers of the 20th century. Revealing anecdotes and biting observations spiked with an outrageous and pugnacious wit and alarming frankness. Our great social commentator." Nice copy, always fun to read.

Cloth. Second printing. 8vo, 476 pp. Light sunning and dustsoiling to page edges and dust jacket, jacket lightly edgeworn. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket.

Wraps. Condizione: Good+. Advertisements (illustratore). Clean and tight textblock. Several closed edge tears, chipping to head and foot of spine, creasing down spine. Pages 257-383. Rear cover Lucky Strike Cigarette ad; This issue includes: The So-Called Lost Battalion by Henry O. Swindler; Fort Laramie, 1834-1928 by Thomas Hornsby Ferrill; People of the Right Kind by Maurice S. Sullivan; Hell in the United States by Duncan Aikman; Ohio River Days by Goldie Weisberg, and much, much more. Please see our scan of the Table of Contents Page. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paperback.

491pp. 8vo Off=white boards and off=white cloth back First edition so stated Light soiling and stains on covers and inside dj, else clean tight copy: VG/VG dj 0-679-42829-1.

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Advertisements (illustratore). This issue includes authors such as, Gerald Holland, Ulric Whitaker, Robert Jeans and others. With works such as, Our Street In Cuernavaca, The Democrats Must Go Native! and Preparing for the Next War, and others. Some rippling to top edges, usual reading and age wear, else textblock is clean and tight. Usual folding to the edges and corners, slightly soiled spine, reading waer along the spine, faint soiling to covers. 385-510. Index to Volume XXIII at end. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements; Samuel E. Brown Cover Art (illustratore). Covers moderately edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. pp. 385-512, including index. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Printed Wraps. Condizione: Good+. Drawings, Ads (illustratore). Very faint ink-stamp on first page, else textblock is clean and tight. The covers are worn and chipped, with several closed edge tears, creases down spine. This issue - pages 385-510. Includes articles by Gerald Holland, Elizabeth Morrow, J. Frederick Essary, Ulric Whitaker, John Hemphill, Herbert Claiborne Pell, Theodore Maynard, & Rovert Jeans. Rear cover gasoline ad. Feature article is "The Radio Octopus" by Dane York. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. heavily worn, frayed and chipped covers, with loss at base of spine; Pages 258-383, plus ads; rear cover, full color, Luck Strike ad; in this issue: Why Was Our Army in Archangel? The Incomparable Senator Bingham; A Bohunk Woman, and much more; Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. Covers moderately edge-worn and chipped, otherwise in good condition. front matter ads, plus pages 385-512, including index, followed by another dozen pages of ads; Rear cover full-color Camel cigarettes ads. See scan of TOC. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good+. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. Covers moderately edge-worn and chipped, otherwise, in good condition. Includes front matter ads, pages 257-384, including index, followed by about 20 pages of ads; Full-color rear cover Lucy Strike Cigarettes ad. See scan of TOC. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements; Samuel E. Brown Cover Art (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. sunned a slightly curled covers, heavily edge worn and chipped, front cover falling apart at binding, water damage throughout book; rear panel, full-color, Camel Cigarettes ad; pp.385-512, plus ads and index; included in this issue:Across the Rio Grande; The Collapse of Democracy; Insanity and the Law; and much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements; Samuel E. Brown Cover Art (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. sunned a slightly curled covers, heavily edge worn and chipped, table of contents cut out and glued on first page; rear panel, full-color, Camel Cigarettes ad with stamp of previous owner in upper left corner; pp.129-256, plus ads; included in this issue: Ambrose Bierce; Some New Whitman Letters; The Presidential Succession; Dry Texas; and much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Wraps. Condizione: Good. Advertisements (illustratore). This volume includes: A White Man in the South, by G. Peyton Wertenbaker; The Law Takes Its Toll, by Robert Blake; Jehovah of the Tar Heels, by W. J. Cash; Diet and the Duration of Life, by James A. Tobey; The Graveyard That Moved, by Jim Tully; Grover The Magnificent, by Henry F. Pringle; The Phrygian Cap, by Idwall Jones; Ingalls of Kansas, by Benjamin De Casseres, and much more; Heavy age and handling wear to the textblock, else clean and mostly tight. Folded edges causing some tears, small chips to corners, chipping to head and foot of spine, age toning and soiling. Loss along the spine; Pages 257-383. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Advertisements (illustratore). This volume includes author's and works such as, Carl Sandburg, John Armstrong, Duff Gilfond, David Purroy, and others. Americana, The Dawn Of A New Science, Robin Hood Is Hanged and many more. The table of contents is tipped in at front, usual age toning and wear, else textblock is clean and tight. No remainder marks. Moderate folding and creasing to the edges and corners, chipping to head and foot of spine, reading crease down the spine, stamp and pencil marking on back cover; xxxii, pages 385-510. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Wraps. Condizione: Good. Advertisements (illustratore). Some rippling to the first few pages, else textblock is clean and tight. Age toned top page edges. Soiled covers, rubbed/crease/peeling edges, chipping to foot of spine, reading creases down spine. 127p; In this issue: Hypocrisy by Thomas Beer; The Plague of Laws by William P. Helm, Jr.; China Boy by Idwal Jones; Happy Days by Raymond Clapper; Cyprian Hymn by Joseph Warren Beach; Herman Melville by Fred Lewis Pattee; Black Child by Winifred Sanford; Comstock The Less by Henry F. Pringle; Witchcraft in West Polk Street by Alice Hamilton; A First-Class Fighting Man by George Sterling; Old Whitey by Nels Anderson, and much, much more. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. Ex-library copy with stamp on front cover. pp. 385-512; Contributors include: The Progressives of the Senate: by a Washington Correspondent; James M. Cain - The Will of the People; Jim Tully - Sapping Day; Ruth Suckow - Mrs. Kemper; Edward Sapir - The Discipline of Sex; Albon L. Holsey: Learning How to Be Black; Raymond S. Tompkins: Horse-Car Days; Merritt Wimberly: Old Tuck; Louis Adamic: The Land of Laughs, and much, much more Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. pp. 129-256 Contributors include: Howard Wolf: The Rubber Barons Fight to the Death; Mark Aron: The Jefferson Street People; Warren M. Smaltz: On Being Deaf; James H. Cook: The Art of Fighting Indians; Howard Lee McBain: Amending the 18th Amendment, and much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good+. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. pp. 1-128; Contributors include T.N. Gillespie (Masters of Pedagogy), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Are Explorers to Join the Dodo?), Dane Yorke (The Citadel of Thrift), Sherwood Anderson (Five Poems), Elmer Davis (The Mortician), Ferner Nuhn (The Old Ladies' Man), Mary Austin (George Sterling at Carmel), Henry Tetlow (Prairie), Bernard De Voto (The Great Medicine Road), and much, much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. pp. 385-512; Contributors include: The Progressives of the Senate: by a Washington Correspondent; James M. Cain - The Will of the People; Jim Tully - Sapping Day; Ruth Suckow - Mrs. Kemper; Edward Sapir - The Discipline of Sex; Albon L. Holsey: Learning How to Be Black; Raymond S. Tompkins: Horse-Car Days; Merritt Wimberly: Old Tuck; Louis Adamic: The Land of Laughs, and much, much more Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. Ex-library copy with stamp on front cover. pp. 257-384; Contributors include: Vachel Lindsay: The Virginians Are Coming Again; Jim Tully: Shanty Irish; Frank R. Kent: The Money That Makes Presidents; Leda V. Bauer: The Movies Tackle Literature; James Robinson: If This Be Treason; H.H. Sawyer: Making Justice Less Expensive; Louis Adamic: The Bohunks; James M. Cain: Theological Interlude; Robert H. Lowie: Word Formation in the American Indian Languages; Elbridge Colby: Gas and Smoke; Isabel Paterson: Murphy; Charles B. Driscoll: Finale of the Wedding March, and much, much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. pp. 385-512; Contributors include: Ray T. Tucker: Borah of Idaho; Benjamin DeCassares: Five Portraits on Galzanized Iron; William C. Murphy, Jr.: The Catholic Press; Ruth Suckow: The Man of the Family; Harbor Allen: The Flynn; Herbert Asbury: The Palmy Days of Methodism; L.M. Hussey: The Mystery of Hormones; William Seagle: The Moral Law; William Weimar: Red Hot Selling; Eleanor Rowland Weinbridge: Morals Among the Unmoral; Bernard De Voto: The Mountain Men; H.M. Kallen: The Philosophers, and much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements (illustratore). Covers heavily edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. Previous owner's name in ink on front cover. pp. 129-255. Contributors include: Hoffman Nickerson: The Twilight of Legislatures; H.L. Davis: Water on the Wheat; Edward Sapir: What Is the Family Still Good For? Henry F. Pringle: Mass Psychologist; W.J. Cash: The War in the South; Michael Gold: Reb Samuel; Howard Lee McBain: Hurdles For the Hoover Administration; Robert H. Lowie: "Freemasons" Among North Dakota Indians; Emily Clark: Mr. Jefferson's University; H.H. Sawyer: The Law of the Road; George S. Schuyler: A Negro Looks Ahead, and much, much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements; Samuel E. Brown Cover Art (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. sunned a slightly curled covers, heavily edge worn and chipped, slight water damage throughout book, front cover falling apart at binding; rear panel, full-color, Camel Cigarettes ad; pp. 129-256, plus ads; included in this issue: The Episcopalians; Bad Business in New England; Alabama Poets; The Vermont Family; and much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Green Wraps. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Advertisements; Samuel E. Brown Cover Art (illustratore). textblock clean and tight. sunned a slightly curled covers, heavily edge worn and chipped; rear panel, full-color, Camel Cigarettes ad; pp. 129-256, plus ads; included in this issue: Ambrose Bierce; Some New Whitman Letters; The Presidential Succession; Dry Texas; and much more. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Periodical.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Photographs/Maps (illustratore). Wearing at gutter, otherwise textblock is clean and tight. Moderately chipped, edge worn and spine worn. Pages 257-383. Literary Periodical.