The League Of Frightened Philistines and Other Papers

New York: Vanguard, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Very near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown. Inscribed by Farrell to the poet and publisher of New Directions: "To James Laughlin With best wishes, James T. Farrell." A nicer than usual copy of a wartime book of essays, with a notable… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard, 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with upper edges chipped and spinal extremities worn. A nice copy, Signed by the author, of this wartime book of essays.

London: Routledge, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First English edition. Spine lettering a bit dimmed, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with edge tears and chips. A wartime book of essays, with a tipped-in slip noting that due to production delays the book was not published until 1948.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, page 208 roughly opened, spine tanned, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. Hardcover. xiv, 210p., first edition, very good condition in a heavily chipped dj.

Vanguard, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to… Read more about this item

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback The Vanguard Press, NY, 1937 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition without Dust Jacket. Gray cloth over boards with red initial on front and red titles to spine, very clean and unmarked, slight rubbing tp edges and corners, particularly… Read more about this item

NY: Vanguard Press. Very Good. 1945. First Edition (?) thus. HARDCOVER. 5x8". VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; RED SPINE TITLES WITH LARGE COMBINED LETTERS J&F on front cover in red ink...all on grey cloth hard covers.. ; 211ps pages; LITERARY CRITICISM...SHORT ESSAYS ON LIFE & WORKS BY JAMES JOYCE, ANTON CHEKHOV, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, MARK TWAIN, DOSTOIEVEKY,… Read more about this item

NY: Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition, First Printing; blue c; 194 clean, unmarked pages; ownr's name A collection of 19 essays, many of which appeared earlier in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Saturday Review of Literature and The Nation, mainly devoted to literary topics. Among the author's profiled are Twain, Dostoievsky, Joyce, Chekov, and Hemingway.… Read more about this item

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. Hardcover, cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. A collection of 19 essays, many of which appeared earlier in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Saturday Review of Literature and The Nation, mainly devoted to literary topics. Among the author's profiled are Twain, Dostoievsky, Joyce, Chekov, and Hemingway. No… Read more about this item

NY: The Vanguard Press, 1945 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Contains critical articles on the literary works of James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Dostoieveky, Lewis Mumford, Mortimer Adler, etc. Dust jacket has light edgewear and soils..

Vanguard Press, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Vanguard Press. First Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, large chips. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1945.

New York: Vanguard Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover.

UsedVeryGood. The dust jacket is missing. Cover shows little to no wear. Clean pages with no underlining or highlights.