Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. I Wanted to Write. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1949.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pieces of DJ flaps laid-in. ; 471 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. I WANTED TO WRITE. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1949.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 471 pages + ads, beige cloth; cellophane tape repair to lower right corner of dj, several nicks How an author lives and works. He also details facts about his occasional collaborator, Booth Tarkington.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. I Wanted To Write. Doubleday & Company,, Garden City:, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on red background title block on the spine and with gilt stamped "KR" on the front board and map end papers. The The cloth at the upper edge of the spine area shows a minor 1/16 inch deep closed tear. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear and flecking of the colors to the ends of the spine area, a 1/2 inch chip to the upper fore corner of the rear panel and small chips over the tips of the boards. The closest title by Roberts to his autobiography. 471 pages of text and an index followed by several pages of ads.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. I Wanted to Write. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed on the half-title page by the President and two other members of the National Fourth Infantry Division Association (IVY). Gilt lettering in brown spine title block on tan covers. Map ( Siberian AEF} end papers. 8vo, 471pp. plus ads.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. I WANTED TO WRITE. Doubleday, 1949.
Price: US$191.40 + shipping
Description: I WANTED TO WRITE, Doubleday, 1949, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. I Wanted To Write. Doubleday & Company,, Garden Cty:, 1949.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in tan, linen covered boards with a gilt on read text block on the spine with decorated map end papers with the spine slightly tanned and at bump to the upper corner of the spine. In a fine jacket with the price intact but a later issue jacket with a price of $5.95 on the flap. Signed on a Kenneth Roberts book plate and tipped on to the second free end page. 471 pages including an index followed by several pages of ads for Roberts' books. The closest thing to Roberts' autobiography.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. I Wanted to Write. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1949.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy in a custom clamshell case, also fine. Attractive bookplate tipped in. No internal markings. Lightly rubbed to the spine.
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.