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TARG,william. American Books and Their Prices. Black Archer, Chicago, 1941.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good minus 1 of 500 limited copies. Book spine lightly yellowed, book lightly rubbed on cover and along spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition (to 500 copies) hardcover, sewn-bound in dark blue cloth, with red panel with title, author and publisher on spine, is in GOOD condition, having bumped and worn corners; spine panel quite faded; edge-wear to covers and spine; some grubbiness to endpaper sections, and to reverse of frontispiece; slight shaking to volume; pages have some age-toning. Illustrated with a few b&w plates of rare books. Alphabetical (by author) listing of rare books, with publishing information and contemporary (for 1941) pricing. Books and book-collecting. DB.
Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Tiny tear at crown else fine/ no dustwrapper. Interesting early price guide by the noted literary polymath. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. 333pp. Limited and signed by Targ, 338/500. moderate rubbing to the edges. Lacks jacket. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!
Seller: Chris Korczak, Bookseller, IOBA, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 333pp; frontispiece and other plates reproducing title-pages. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine lettering on red block. 7.25" x 4.5" Limited edition of 500 copies. This is #26, signed by the author.
Seller: R & A Petrilla, IOBA, Roosevelt, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: good condition with minor soiling First Edition. Numbered Limited Edition. Signed by Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Limited edition of 500 copies; First Edition. Numbered Limited Edition. Signed by Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Limited edition of 500 copies; NOVI008103; Top of spine has been repaired, good tight binding. Limited edition of 500 Copies - #367
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition. One of 250 copies printed. Inscription by the book designer in red ink on the front free endpaper: "To Anne Young, from Norman W. Forgue, Elaine Lundquist." Original publisher's orange cloth binding with yellow title label on front cover. 5 /12" x 8." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Pages and covers are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Colophon in the front: "Limited Edition of Two Hundred Fifty Copies Issued. Most of the poems contained in this volume first appeared in Front Views and Profiles in the Chicago Tribune." Colophon in the back: "Designed by Norman W. Forgue for the Black Archer Press. Printed from Garamond and Civilite types on Linweave Text paper by the Norman Press, Chicago." The author of Poems of a Chinese Student is actually William Targ. William Targ (1907-1999) was a Chicago book editor and bibliophile of Russian Jewish descent. According to his son Russell, Targ was also a scholar of Asian cultures and a collector of Japanese artwork. The authorship of this book was confirmed in Targ's autobiography, Indecent Pleasures, in which he relays a story about how a women's club in Chicago asked that Charles Yu read his poems for them in person, but when "Charles Yu" came, the women remarked how he did not look Chinese. Information about this book is cited from an article, "Don Thompson -- Of Jade Flowers and Miss Yu," on www2[dot]bakersfieldcollege[dot]edu. The following poems are in this book: "Study," "In America," "Ecstacy," "Poison Pen," "Nostalgia," "Longing," "Art," "Haircut," "Campus Life," "White Stones," "Miss Jones and Jade Flower," "Dreams and the Present," "Eighth Wonder," "White Night in Chicago," "Use and Abuse," "Torch Singer," "The Hosiery Question," "Art Exhibit," "Marriage Scene," "Touche," "Epicurean Lark," "A Little Learning," and "Book Learning."
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.