Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$4.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light wear to the edges and blue covers; name inside; pages yellowed, a few stains; no jacket; a good book overall. Illustrator: Shenton, Edward. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 199510.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Face Of A Nation. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Endpapers have some light foxing, and yellowing. DJ has some discoloration, creasing, wear, and yellowing.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No ISBN. Dust jacket shows fading and wear at back but protected in mylar; black cloth boards with gilt titles in handsome green and gilt panel at front very good; spine with gilt title lettering good with some staining; binding sound; pages tanned but good otherwise; decorations good. 322 pages; 2 lbs. shipping. Published during the year following his death in November 1938, this volume presents some of the finest passages from his novels: Look Homeward Angel, Of Time and the River and other stories. Wolfe's language is always astounding, sometimes outrageous, and as this collection shows, often beautiful. Size: 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.5 0.0
Seller: Longbranch Books, Longbranch, WA, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. Face of a Nation, The. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 322 pages, edges of dust jacket are chipped with tears along backstrip. Ink stain along bottom fore edge not affecting pages.
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Face of a Nation. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "cl" on copyright page
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
WOLFE, Thomas. The Face of a Nation. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 6.5 x 9.25 in. xii, 322 pp. Very good in original black cloth boards with green title blocks and gold titling, and a good, unclipped dust jacket that has chipping along the top and bottom edges of the spine and the top back cover. This copy of "Poetical Passages" from Wolfe's work has the original $2.75 price on the front dust jacket flap and the letters "CL" printed on the copyright page, indicating a true first edition. Includes chapter decorations illustrated by Edward Shenton.
Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: VG, eps lightly tanned in DJ w/ chip top nr spine, corner bumped; Original price of $2.75 on DJ. Letters CL on copyright page by _A_ is not present. Date of 1939 on title page. ; Blue cloth; 8vo; DJ
Seller: Optical Insights, Murrieta, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dark blue cloth with dark green logo on front and green and gilt title box and linings on spine. Thick book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of flaws and markings inside and out, other than some foxing to front endpapers due to clippings laid-in, including the Literary Guild's small magazine, Wings, featuring their review of this book, along with an ad for the November selection, a Somerset Maugham work, and a clipping from the National Observer. Book is Near Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket has nice color, unfaded including the spine, and full length b/w photo of author on back. 321 pp. Decorations by Edward Shenton
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Thomas Wolfe. The Face Of A Nation. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$248.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION, with Scribner's "CL" on copyright page vs. the usual "A". Decorations by Edward Shenton. Bound in black cloth, lettering gilt over green with gilt rules to upper board and spine, some toning to endsheets, internally clean. A very good copy in a very good clipped dust jacket with some wear to spine ends and a small kink at foot.
Seller: Second Site Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.