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Herman Wouk. The City Boy. Doubleday, Garden City, 1952.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth, blue spine, gold lettering, cover page cut away. Lightly rubbed. Novel ; Ex-Library
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York, 1952.
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, spine lettering is fading. Otherwise good plus. We ship fast. No dust jacket.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear. edges of pages have light wear, toning and very tiny dots/stains. mylar-covered dust jacket has light chipping at head of spine and along upper edges and corners.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Wouk Herman (signed by). The City Boy A Novel. Doubleday, 1952.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Location:908, 1029 348 pp. bookplate 908, 1029
Seller: Schoen Books, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday, 1952.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Subtitled A Hilarious Novel of Boyhood. 1952 Illustrated edition. Binding is light blue boards covered in dark blue paper. Book has a strip of toning on the bottom of rear endpaper and pastedown and a light strip on front endpaper. Pages are clean and binding is tight. DJ has soiling on back panel and minor edgewear. Some wrinkling. Price intact. Protected in plastic. Great illustrations throughout.
Seller: Linda's Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WOUK, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y., 1952.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in red cloth stamped in black and gold. The dust jacket is tape repaired on both the top and bottom edges amazingly enough -- not affecting any text. . The author's second book 306 pp. Dust jacket maintains the price of $2.95 on front flap of jacket.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, black cloth on cover, blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Dust-jacket has minor tears and creases. 348pp. Very good condition. Illustrated edition.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1952.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed, dated, and signed on first free end page. Fore-edges of first and last free end pages are slightly darkened. Crayon markings on last two free ended pages. Circular, brown stain along hinge at back paste down page. Spine is slightly cocked. Jacket has two, small, closed tears on top edge of front panel. Small chip on bottom edge of front panel. Two chips on head of spine. Very small gap on back edge of spine. Mild wear along front and back edges of spine. Otherwise both book and jacket are in very good condition.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny. Doubleday, London, 1952.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The is believed to be a second issue with a later dj with "City Boy" and mention of the Pulitzer Prize. but the position of the division between the white and gold background on the back of the dj is the same as for the first edition dj, ie central between the "E" in CAINE and the "M" in MUTINY, just to add to the confusion. As there is no date specified on the copyright page or any other indication as to when this edition was published I have assumed it would be 1952 but could be wrong. Additional photos provided on request. This book will incur additional shipping charges. Please inquire before ordering
Seller: AMADEUSBOOKS, DIBDEN PURLIEU, United Kingdom
Wouk, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, New York, 1952.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy of the scarce first illustrated edition done in 1952 with 1952 shown on title page. His second book and first publishedl in 1948. Spine blue over black cloth with gold lettering and design on spine is clean with sharp tips. Brief gift inscription on front pastedown as is small rubber stamp but no other markings and partially hidden under front flap. Neatly Price clipped jacket shows price but dollar amount clipped. Jacket is very clean and surprisingly well preserved with only minor nick at head of spine and a small pencilled B3 on back panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman. The City Boy. DOUBLEDAY, NY, 1952.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Dj is lightly rubbed at spine edge, and small chip at bottom corner, tanned, and lighlty rubbed cover. General shelf wear, faded spine, page edges tanned, few pencil markings on fep, and rubbed cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1952 EDITION: 348
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Herman Wouk. The City Boy. Doubleday, 1952.
Price: US$84.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gordon Grant (illustrator). First Illustrated Edition. Nice copy of the scarce first illustrated edition done in 1952 with 1952 shown on title page. His second book first published in 1948. Spine blue over black cloth with gold lettering and design on spine is clean with sharp tips. Neatly Price clipped jacket is very clean and surprisingly well preserved In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman.. The City Boy.. Doubleday and Company, Inc, New York, 1952.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Originally published in 1948, this is the Illustrated Edition of 1952, published to capitalize on Wouk's contemporary fame from the successful play and movie versions of The Caine Mutiny [1951]. 348pp. with Drawings by Gordon Grant, and with a Foreword by John P. Marquand. A Fine copy in blue and black cloth (spine gilt slightly dulled) in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Q14593
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
WOUK, Herman. The City Boy. Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y., 1952.
Price: US$116.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in red cloth stamped in black and gold in a Lawrence Hoffman designed dust jacket. Minor bit of rubbing to spine ends of jacket. The first edition of the author's scarce second book 306 pp. Dust jacket maintains the price of $2.95 on front flap of jacket. Hard to find in this protected condition.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Wouk, Herman., Illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith. THE CAINE MUTINY.. DOUBLEDAY, 1952.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE first state dust jacket (with The City Boy blurb on the back panel)
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.