Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni and Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: some staining on dust jacket in plastic covering Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni and Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Acceptable black boards with faded lettering along spine. Binding and hinges slightly loose and square; Contents clean and unmarked except for blue crayon and pencil on the back of the FFEP which is taped on with yellow tape. Back end paper is loose. Tear/chip on half title page. Webbing is showing at title page and back paste down. Sun fading on spine, crush to head and tail of spine. No dust jacket. 319pp. Says copyright 1925 on copyright page with no mention of printing. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles, Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 319 pp, black cloth with yellow/green stamping, pictorial endpapers; some rubbing to spine stamping, light wear, some toning/foxing to page edges. [16]
Seller: J.C. Bell, Lunenburg, NS, Canada
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth cover, yellow stamp title. Moderate wear. Some white speckle stains on cover. Dust jacket fragment is pasted on verso of free end paper. Clean text. E11
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. New York Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third printing. 319 pages. Several tiny spots front cover. Light discoloration along bottom 1/2" of spine and covers with that extending and inch up front cover and several inches back cover. Else, good condition. A solid copy. (K7)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni & Liveright, New York, New York, 1925.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition, 7th printing. In black cloth boards, with illustrated endpapers. Wrinkling to cloth on rear cover, lettering partially rubbed away on spine. Nevertheless a sturdy vintage decent reading copy - all this book needs is the jacket! Hemingway wrote The Torrents of Spring as a parody of this book.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, fifth printing November, 1925. No jacket. Black boards with gilded lettering on front and spine; stencil design on spine. Deckled long fore edge; edges toned. Crack at title hinge, all holding firmly. Inerior is lightly toned, otherwise clean and clear.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood.. DARK LAUGHTER.. Boni:, 1925.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not stated, but believe this is the first edition, no printing information is present except for the year 1925, 319 pages. VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, black cloth covers shows some wear, yellow lettering is bright on front cover, and only readable on spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1925.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 319. Black cloth. Rear hinge tender, front one just beginning, o/w VG. Johnson page 25.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941). DARK LAUGHTER.. New York: Boni & Liveright, (1925), 1925.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - 2nd printing. Anderson's only best-selling novel during his lifetime, this explores the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. The title comes from the protagonist who spent several months in New Orleans, where he watched and listened to African Americans, and thought "listening to their dark laughter, that they lived as simply as children and were happy." 319 pp. Striking illustrated endpapers depict a panoramic collage of African American musicians and a townscape. Very good in black cloth with gold lettering, no dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood.. Dark Laughter.. Boni and Liveright., New York., 1925.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Anderson's novel of the post-civil war South, politically incorrect by modern standards. weight: 1.0 lb. Very good, light scuffing to covers, light sunning to spine, no dust jacket. 19.5x13.5 cm. 319 pp. Black cloth, yellow titles, embossed spine decorations, pictorial black and yellow endpapers.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with almost pristine gilt. The pages and decorative endpages (yellow/black) are clean, with no markings or folds. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Stated Seventh Printing, December, 1925.
Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, NY, USA, 1925.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black boards with yellow letters corners sharp, illustrated end papers. The book was printed twice in Sept. & Oct. 1925. The book has 319 pages with a one cm tear on last page. First Edition, Fourth Printing, October 1925.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth boards w/embossed spine cover are well-bound, lightly rubbed & bumped at spine end, gilt sharp. Front fold of DJ is inserted. previous owner's inscription on half-title page, dated Dec. 1925. Crack at first signature, otherwise, well-bound pages are clean & sharp throughout. Protected in mylar.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Dark Laughter.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 319 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth (lacking dust jacket). Sixth printing. This copy suffers from underlining and marginal notes, particularly at flyleaf at rear, in ink. Otherwise a very good copy with the lettering in nice condition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to C. B. Rogers.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Dark Laughter.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 319 pp. 8vo, publisher's black lettered cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Surface of the lower corner of the front board slightly dulled from exposure to damp; very slight use to extremities of spine; otherwise an attractive, tight and sound copy in a jacket with several small chips, short tears and creases.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood and Georg Theo Hartmann. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Black cloth boards with yellow lettering on front and spine; black and yellow illustrated end papers; 319 pp. A Good Books circular from Fall 1925 is laid-in. Novel about the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. VG- (light shelfwear to boards, pages lightly age toned but very clean and clear, small tear to top corner of ffep)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$90.03 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Glue strip to paste downs, hinge loose.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No DJ. Front hinge starting. Spine faded glass ring.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New YorkB, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 317 pages. Large 8vo, original vellum-backed black boards (spine sun-darkened and foxed, as usual; contemporary ownership info on front pastedown; wrinkle on front flyleaf). New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Limited First Edition. A very good copy. Number 80 of 350 signed copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1925.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 259 of 350 numbered and signed. In slipcase. (20 lettered copies were also printed.) Slipcase taped together, but Very Good. Book: usual foxing to the vellum spine, toning to page edges. First printing. Signed by author on limitation page. Quarter vellum with vellum tips. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1925.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of this book, bound in black cloth, stamped in yellow. A stunning copy. This book is preserved in a custom-made 1/4 leather slipcase with five raised bands on spine, stamped in gold. A beautiful copy of the book that shows well in the custom made slipcase.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Dark Laughter.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 319 pp. 8vo, publisher's vellum-backed boards in slipcase. First edition; No. 307 of 350 copies signed by Anderson. A very good copy with the usual foxing to the vellum, in a slipcase which exhibits a moderate amount of wear at the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Sherwood Anderson - Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright (1925). First Edition. Hardback. Book is in Fine condition; bright, with the barest foxing on page edges. The VG jacket is lightly foxed at flap folds and on verso with spine ends a little nicked and a few tiny chips and closed tears. A nice looking copy. See image. Enclosed in archival quality mylar cover.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Limited edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very special gift inscription from the Author on the limitation page that reads: "In memory of one of the most charming evenings of my life -- in [.] to F. H Schoolcraft -- in whose house it happened. December 10, 1924." Quarter vellum with vellum tips. Black covers with red lettering. #165 of 350 Signed copies. There is splitting of the joint behind the front cover with webbing visible. Binding is still tight. The usual browning of the vellum. This comes with the original dark slipcase but the case is split at the joints at the bottom. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a FAIR book in a POOR slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, signed issue. Tall octavo. 319pp. Vellum spine and tips moderately tanned and spotted (as usual), short closed tear at crown, hinges are split but neatly strengthened, corners bumped, a very good copy. One of 350 numbered copies, signed by Sherwood Anderson (from a total edition of 370 copies).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Vellum spine mottled as usual, else near fine in a very good, rubbed publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Boni and Liveright in 1925. A near fine copy of the book.( there is a prior owner's signature tucked innocuously into the upper corner of the half title page ) Dust jacket very good with some chipping to the spine ends and some rubbing to the black panels. Fingernail sized chip to the top of the front jacket panel.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited First Edition.Fine Copy With Vellum Spine.1/350 Signed copies #48. Beautiful Copy. Ownership Book Plate
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No Dust Jacket as issued. Limited Edition. This is the first edition of Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson, issued as a signed limited edition, and published by Boni & Liveright in New York in 1925. It is number 252 of 350. This copy is in very good condition. In heavily worn slip case.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: No. 65 of 350 copies signed by the author. 317 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Parchment-backed black boards. Spine darkened, else Near Fine. Bookplate No. 65 of 350 copies signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed by Artist to his wife. One if a kind piece in near fine/fine condition.
Seller: SWBooks, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: DARK LAUGHTER, Boni & Liveright, 1925, first edition, a vg+ copy. 1/350 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. (Satirized by Hemingway as THE TORRENTS OF SPRING).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, Inc., New York, 1925.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. An earlier owner has given it cloth folding case and morocco backed slipcase, now slightly darkened at the top.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Three books and one typed letter signed by American author Sherwood Anderson: Sherwood Anderson. A Story Teller's Story. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924. First edition, signed by the author on the half title. Lacking dust jacket. Included with the volume are several contemporary news clippings about Anderson. Very good; light rubbing to edges and corners of boards; text block age-toned. Sherwood Anderson. The American County Fair. New York: Random House, 1930. First edition; limited edition of 875 unnumbered copies. Octavo, 13 pages. Very good-. Heavy paper wraps, somewhat tanned, with paper label pasted to narrow spine. Text block slightly age-toned. Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Special limited edition, 169 of 350. Signed by the author on limitations page. Octavo, 319 pages. Very good-; light discoloration to spine, minor bumping and rubbing to head and tail of spine, edges and corners of boards. Significant cracking to hinges. Text block lightly age-toned and very slightly foxed. A typed letter signed by Anderson, directed to "Burton and Mary" (no other name given) and dated June 18, 1931. Anderson writes about the possibility of publishing two editions of a speech he had given the previous winter, which a friend of Burton's might print for him. Good+/very good-; creased from mailing and with light wear from handling; damp staining across the lower two-thirds of the document. Shelved Off Sales Floor Room A {S's Office}. CX Consignment. 1348122. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni & Liveright, Inc, New York, 1925.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 319 pages; VG/none; Red leather spine (slipcase) with raised bands and gilt lettering; Interior clean; In dark red slipcase with bright red chemise; CX consignment; shelved case 2. 1346253. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Original vellum-backed and tipped boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red. Copy H of 20 Lettered copies (of a total edition of 370) SIGNED by the author. Obviously a scarce issue of this book, a novel that dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and that was influenced by James Joyce's ULYSSES. DARK LAUGHTER was Anderson's only best-seller during his lifetime, though today he is better known for WINESBURG, OHIO. Ernest Hemingway parodied DARK LAUGHTER in his early short work THE TORRENTS OF SPRING. Hemingway's novella mocked the pretensions of Anderson's style and characters. Gertrude Stein, Hemingway's former mentor, objected to the young writer's parody of a writer who had helped him get published, resulting in a falling-out. Owner name on front endpaper; hinges repaired. Edgewear; tears to top of spine, which is darkened, with no loss; lettering to cover rubbed. Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Printing. Signed in green fountain ink by Anderson on half-title page. Jacket is missing top 1/4 inch of edge, chipping at tail, edge and corner wear and creasing. Not Price clipped. Book: cocked, loose at the hinges with crack in pastedowns, owner's bookplate on front paste down. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 319pp.; pictorial endpapers in yellow and black. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, chip at spine crown reinforced with tape to verso, spine a hint cocked, else Near Fine in a Very Good, still-vibrant dust jacket. Novel set in the Midwest just after World War I and the effects of the war on a marriage. HANNA 74.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. A fine copy with the spine very slightly bumped at crown, else binding is fresh and bright, in very good dust jacket with a short internal tape mend on the verso of the crown.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Black boards with yellow titles. Black and yellow pictorial endpapers. Fine book in a fine (minor restoration) jacket. Collector's copy!
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: #314 of 350 in special edition signed by Anderson; in a mildly shelfworn slip case, no jacket as issued. The book "dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. Though he is today better known for Winesburg, Ohio, Dark Laughter was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924 1944. This copy purchased some 20 years ago at Heritage in LA.
Seller: Richard Drive Books & Collectibles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.