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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, brown cloth, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a standing woman, top page edges stained red, 206 pages. Yardis Fisher (1895 - 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. Having been raised in the faith, his Children of God (1939) dealt with the Latter-day Saints. His 12-volume Testament of Man (1943-60) novelized the history of humankind. In 1937, the year in which APRIL was published about a homely young woman's poeticized love affair, Fisher wrote The Idaho Guide for the WPA! One of Fisher's less common titles often without dust jacket. There appear to be two states of the dust jacket: one plain; another with this Art Nouveau image of a woman. One assumes this is the latter state in which the publisher has enhanced the dj of a better-seller. Cloth is tight with light soil; pages have moderate and uniform page-toning; the dust jacket (unclipped) has wear and bare spots on the rear panel.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. April A Fable. Caxton Printers Idaho / Doubleday, 1937.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in full brown cloth with bumped spine ends. Otherwise it's tight and strong with the top edge stained red. Printed on uncut paper with bright clean text. The jacket has a sunned spine and is price clipped with some small tears to the spine. Brad 334
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. April: A Fable of Love. Caxton Publishers, Caldwell, ID, 1937.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 206pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Light brown cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and gilt ruled borders on the spine. Publisher's red top stain. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Very good plus. The spine ends are gently bumped, and the endsheets are subtly discolored. In a very good dust jacket, with large areas of sunning, and minor edge tears. An early novel by this Idaho author. The book tells the fable about how a homely girl "makes poetry of her life."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis.. April. A Fable of Love.. Caldwell, Idaho Caxton Printers/Doubleday 1937., 1937.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photos, 9 x 6", gilt-lettered and gilt-pict green cloth, 436pp with index, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and frayed, bottom and top of spine chipped, inner hinges cracking, pp toned and used, EX-LIBRARY with usual markings. Second Printing, June 1937. One of the most SCARCE of the WPA guides. Lacks map.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1937 second printing. No dust jacket. Illustrated green hardback covers show moderate wear to the spine edges and corners. An excellent history published as part of the WPA writer's project. The lead historian for Idaho was Vardis Fisher.
Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 431pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles, and gilt and green ink stamped vignettes on the spine and front cover. The spine ends and corners of the covers are rubbed. The hinges are weak, more so the front, and the text block is cracked a couple of times. Black and white illustrations. Prepared by the Federal Writers' Projects of the Works Progress Administration.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with spine and edges moderately faded. Signed by the author on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Good with lightly rubbed edges and bumped corners. The spine ends are chipped and the hinges are slightly weak. Pages are slightly stiff, rippled and have a slight yellowing Green cloth with gilt lettering and designs
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some edgewear
Seller: Lexington Books Inc, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.