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Kenneth Roberts. For Authors Only. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1935.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wear at corners; sound and unmarked. A collection of essays from the popular Maine author.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
ROBERTS.KENNETH. FOR AUTHORS ONLY.. DOUBLEDAY DORAN,NEW YORK.1935., 1935.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: REPRINT IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION.BOOK IS NF,CLEAN AND BRIGHT.DJ IS INTACT AND WHOLE BUT HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY TAPE REPAIREDFULL OF GREAT ESSAYS ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS DEALT WITH IN A PENETRATING IRONIC AND HUMOROUS FASHION.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. For Authors Only. Doubleday, Doran,, 1935.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Blue diamond textured cover, gold spine and cover titles, deckle page tips,has some edge wear, top of spine chipped, front gutter cracked but, intact, name on front end paper,clean unmarked content with good binding.Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!
Seller: Royal Oak Bookshop, Front Royal, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.73 + shipping
Description: 446pp. + ads 8vo Linecut illustrations by Robert R. Haberstock Blue cloth First edition so stated Ex-library, light cover rubbing and wear: VG/no dj
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. FOR AUTHORS ONLYand Other Gloomy Essays. Doubleday Doran, 1935.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 446pp Front hinge taped. (loc 315/1)
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Blue cloth binding with impressed cross-hatched pattern on spine and front cover. Gold colored eagle design on cover and gold print on spine. Some spine print faded. Map endpapers. Foxing strips in endpaper gutter areas. Front and spine have some dampstaining. Light wear at corner tips and spine ends. Sound and except author's inscription on title page, unmarked. 632 pages plus sevral of ads.
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth hardcover with blindstamped design on front cover and spine, bright gilt design on front cover, bright gilt lettering on spine, 446 pages plus ads, top edge blue, lower corners are very slightly bumped, spine ends very slightly bumped and or rubbed, not frayed, book is very slightly cocked from leaning with foredge down, small paper stain top of pages 334 and 335 from a book mark made from a small piece of newsprint, generally a decent clean tight copy, dust jacket shows light soil and rubbing and some minor edge wear and short edge closed tears, jacket is complete with $2.50 price, autographed by the author on front end page in fountain pen "With all the good wishes of Kenneth Roberts." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: DJ Ernst-Books, Selinsgrove, PA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. For Authors Only. Doubleday Doran, 1935.
Price: US$89.27 + shipping
Description: First printing. PON to FEP, otherwise a NF copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price of $2.50 intact on the front flap. Inscribed and signed by the author on the FEP.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and a gilt front cover pictorial of an eagle. Signed by Roberts on title page. Light rubbing at extremities. 3 pages of publisher's ads in back. Internally clean and tight with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: For Authors Only and Other Gloomy Essays. By Kenneth Roberts and printed in Garden City, New York by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1935, 1st edition, 496 pp, 7.75 x 5.5, hardcover blue cloth. In good condition, with minor rubbing to edges and corners of exterior. Loss of original dust jacket. Small tear after title page repaired with tape. Inscribed by Roberts on first end page, along with light pencil marginalia. Hinges remain in goo condition and text bock remains bound well. Illustrations accompanying each title page. Small section of other works available at rear. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce inscribed piece by Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957), an historical fiction writer who wrote with a high emphasis on his native New England, particularly Maine. COLL1935ABEB
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This FIRST EDTION hard cover is in VERY GOOD + CONDITION, with a dust jacket in VG condition, showing some edge wear/tear/chips, protected in a mylar cover. AUTHORS INSCRIPTION reads "With Best Wishes, Kenneth Roberts". 446pp with 4 pp of publisher ads, bound in blue cloth with blind stamped design, & gilt design/lettering. Slight lower edge rubbing, with page darkening. Newspaper articles about the author, in plastic, laid in. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. No labels, inscriptions or markings.
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. for Author's Only. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1935.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Some light toning to the spine and in an un-clipped jacket with a fold to the top of the front panel and some peripheral wear.
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Linecut Illustrations by Robert E. Haberstock. Octavo. Front flyleaf has small, faint surface abrasion else a fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several small nicks and tears with a faint, small tape mend. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, KENNETH. FOR AUTHORS ONLY and Other Gloomy Essays. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., NY, 1935.
Price: US$189.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AUTHOR'S SIGNED BOOKPLATE: "FOR OSWALD TRAIN WITH BEST WISHES." ALSO SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO FFEP. CHIP TO UNCLIPPED DJ.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. FOR AUTHORS ONLY AND OTHER GLOOMY ESSAYS. , 1935.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: ROBERTS, Kenneth. FOR AUTHORS ONLY AND OTHER GLOOMY ESSAYS. Illustrated by Robert B. Haberstock. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935. Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf. 446 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Near fine, faint stain to blue top edge, faint age toning to text. In very good dust jacket, price-clipped, with minor edgewear and light soil to rear panel.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. For Authors Only. Doubleday, Doran,, Garden City:, 1935.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing Very good+ in dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with bright gilt stamped on the spine and on the front board. There is slight wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and the end sheets show minor foxing due to a reaction to the glue used in binding. There is also a prior owner's small name tag on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with several closed tears and related creases at the ends of the spine area and at the upper and lower edges of the front panel. Signed and inscribed "With Best Wishes" on the first free end paper by the author. 446 pages followed by four pages of ads for other books by Roberts. Very scarce in dust jacket as only 5,603 copies of the first printing were produced.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 446pp, [4]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, gilt design and blind stamped details on front board. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, lightly bumped spine, a near fine example. Top edge dyed green. Bookseller's label affixed to rear pastedown endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to spine, light wear to flap folds and edges, shelf wear. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With the best wishes of Kenneth Roberts." Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) wrote historical fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.