Search Results: Vintage Fiction from Book & Pen

D. Appleton & Company 1926. Tex is clean and unmarked. Pages are lightly tanned with age. Light foxing on end pages. Green boards are sturdy showing shelf and edgewear especially at spine. Gilt lettering on front and spine is faded. Previous owner's name is penned on front end page. No DJ.

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 1967. Book is in good condition. Boards and bindings are strong. Text is clean and unmarked. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. DJ shows light shelf and edge wear.

Houghton Mifflin 1948. Tenth Printing. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards are sturdy showing light shelf and edge wear. No DJ.

The Viking Press 1936. Text is clean and unmarked. Black cloth boards are sturdy with light shelf and edge wear. Small white stain on hard cover. Deckle edge lightly tanned. with age. No DJ.

Black boards are sturdy showing light shelfwear. spine is faded. Two of the volumes have white stains on the front cover. Texts are clean and unmarked. End pages and foredges tanned with age.No foxing. No DJs

Lovell, Coryell and Company 1890. New and Revised Edition. Dark blue pictorial boards are well worn with edge wear, rubbing and scuff marks. Pages are tanned with age. Text is clean and unmarked.. Foxing and tanning on each end page and foredges. Title page has tear at spine edge. No DJ.

Groset & Dunlap 1948. Duodecimo. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong with moderate shelf and edge wear. DJ has significant shelf wear and chips and tears with a large 3" piece missing on front lower right.

G.P. Putnam's Sons 1977. This looks like special edition although there is no notation as such. Faux leatherette boards with gold stamped decorations on front and spine. Boards are sturdy with light shelfwear. Text is clean and unmarked. Gold toned foredges are lightly sloiled. No DJ.

Charles Scribner's Sons 1901. Text is clean and unmarked. Red boards are sturdy showing shelf wear and edge wear. Title page has stamp "R. H. Macy & Co.,Book Department". Gift inscription to previous owner on second end page & previous owner's bookplate on front paste down. No DJ.

The MacMillan Company, 1897.Boards are firm but corners are bent. Covers and spine are green with gold lettering. Spine has faded to brown and much of the bak and front. Front end page is stained yellow. Minor spotting on title page. Text is clean and unmarked. No DJ.

James R. Osgood 1878. The sixth edition of the book is in acceptable condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards have bumped corners. There is a small separation at the bottom of the back corner. There is edge wear at the corners and especially at the head and foot of the spine. Gilt lettering on the cover and spine is clear. Previous owner's name is on the second front end page. No DJ.

Doubleday 1927. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong with some edge wear. DJ is edgeworn with several taped tears and light shelf wear. Newberry Honor Book sticker on DJ front cover.

Doubleday, Doran 1930. The boards are sturdy showing light soiling and shelfwear. Pages are tanned with age, no foxing.Text is clean unmarked. No DJ.

Little, Brown and Company 1937. Stated first edition. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards are sturdy. Pages are lightly tanned. Boards show moderate shelf and edge wear. Spine lettering is faded. No DJ.

REeynal and Hitchcock, 1947. Translation by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Boards are sturdy showing moderate shelf and edgewear. Text is clean and unmarked. A few pages have light foxing. Front end page has pencil and pen marking and old tape marks. Back end page has old tape marks. Deckled edges soiled. No DJ.

L. C. Pace, Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy 1989. Near new condition. Lower corner slightly bumped, otherwise like new. Gift inscription signed by the author on second front end page. No DJ.

L.C.Pace &Co. 1961. First Printing. Good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Red boards are sturdy. Pages are toned. Boards are faded showing showing remarkably little edge wear. Spine is faded wirh some wear at head and foot. Blue lettering is sharp. Gift inscription signed by the author is on the front end page. No DJ.

The Franklin Library 1984."This limited first edition of Foreign Affairs has been privately printed, and personally signed by Alison Lurie, exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society". Book is in near new condition with one small scrape on back edge of spine.

Heritage Press 1934. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong. Linen boards show light soiling. Previous owner's name plate is on front paste down. Slip case shows heavy shelf and edge wear including separation along bottom edge.

Heritage Press 1970. Illustrated by Robert Shore. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong with light soiling. Small rubbing on gilt lettering of title on spine of "From the Earth...". Slipcase shows light soiling and shelfwear.