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John Fante. Dreams from Bunker Hill. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$16.53 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Trade paperback. 1982. 4th Printing, stated. Near Fine with minor shelf & age wear. Interior is bright & unmarked.
Seller: Gastown Bookwurm, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Fante, John. Dreams from Bunker Hill. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$21.63 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Fante, John. Dreams from Bunker Hill. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1982.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing, trade paperback, a touch of soiling to page edges, light bumps to corners and spine ends, a touch of edgewear, otherwise clean and bright, a Very Good + copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in the original acetate dust jacket. One of 500 copies hand bound in boards by Earl Gray.Light shelf wear to bottom of boards,
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Fante, John. Dreams from Bunker Hill. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 500 trade edition copies. A nearly Fine copy in Good + publisher's acetate jacket. Bound in cream and blue boards with red cloth backstrip and maintaining paper title to spine. Minor wear to extremities and two small stains to closed text block foredge. Jacket with expected scuffing with old price sticker and residue on back panel. Fante's novel, and follows the character Arturo Bandini, a "quintessential starving artist" (LA Times) as he dreams and succeeds at being a writer in Los Angeles. Fante imbues Bandini with a similar background as himself and wrote about the character throughout his career, publishing four works often referred to as the Bandini Quartet. Suffering complications and blindness from diabetes, Fante wrote the book via dictation. Fine in Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Fante, John.. Dreams from Bunker Hill.. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy with original acetate dust jacket. This is one of only 500 copies of the hardcover trade edition in a quarter black cloth and paper over boards binding. "Dreams from Bunker Hill" takes place in Los Angeles in the late 1930's where Fante's favorite protagonist Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer who is given a job as a Hollywood screenwriter. Bandini is living on Bunker Hill in downtown L.A. but a series of circumstances lands him in a couple of very lucrative screen-writing jobs in Hollywood that s his shot at Chandler and company. The main task in these jobs is not to write a word the $300 a week cheques arrive precisely because of that. His problem, much like Fante s, is that he still wants to be a writer. Alas, there is no money in that and complications ensue. Fante has been compared to Dostoevsky, Knut Hamsun, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Steinbeck, James Farrell, William Saroyan and Nathanael West. First Printing of the First Trade Edition.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Fante, John. Dreams from Bunker Hill. Black Sparrow Pr, 1982.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDCOVER, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, W/ ORIGINAL ACETATE COVER IN VERY FINE CONDITION! This is one of only 500 copies of the hardcover trade edition in a quarter black cloth and paper over boards binding. "Dreams from Bunker Hill" takes place in Los Angeles in the late 1930's where Fante's favorite protagonist Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer who is given a job as a Hollywood screenwriter. First Printing of the First Trade Edition.
Seller: Devoted toBooks, Pleasant Hill, CA, U.S.A.
Fante, John. Dreams from Bunker Hill. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited issue; one of 26 deluxe lettered copies signed by John Fante and handbound by Earle Gray. Near Fine with faint foxing to top edge of textblock, in a Very Good publisher's clear acetate wrap, lightly roiled, rubbed, with a few small creases and tiny nicks. A very nice copy of a memoir by the Italian-American author of Ask the Dust.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.