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Tennessee Williams. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$11.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Ink notation on fly leaf. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. 183 pp.
Seller: The Bookseller, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Tennessee Williams. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . 8vo, hardcover, charcoal grey cloth. Near fine condition in vg+ dj. Unprice-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed; covers and contents clean, uinworn, binding square and tight. American, Fiction, Literature, Modern, Southern,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With previous owner's name and with the bookseller's handstamp, otherwise a fine hardcover first edition copy in a mylar protected DJ that is price clipped, white spine.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sm 8vo. Dark blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering. 183 pages. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact), with Dali drawing on front panel, has slight tonng at vertical edges, and diagonal creases on rear panel.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Description: New York. 1966. New Directions. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 183 pages. hardcover. Cover froma drawing by Salvador Dali - 'Cavalier of Death'. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - At the opening of the short novel that gives its title to this book, Gewinner Pearce, who has been traveling abroad with his tutor for some years, returns to his home town in the American South. He finds that his late father's small factory has mushroomed into a vast barbed-wire-fenced, classified' operation known as The Project, while the town is swarming with Army Brass, scientists, and pee-sees,' the security men who keep the others nervously about their business. The President has just been down from Washington to confer with Gewinner's brother Braden, director of The Project, about the many problems confronting the country all over the world today and getting no better tomorrow. Gewinner is scarcely, in appearance at least, the herochampion of chivalry, but soon, like a modern Don Quixote, he is challenging Evil in the form of the Laughing Boy Drive-in, which has sprung up across from the Pearce family castle,' and its repulsively square owner Billy Spangler, who guffaws periodically in neon and in life. What follows is a story unlike anything Tennessee Williams has written before, a fable with a moral that is both a parody of espionage thrillers and a burlesque satire on our destruction-oriented society. The message of The Knightly Quest' is deadly serious, but the telling of it is hilarious comedy. Each of the four other stories in the book is in a different vein. The Kingdom of Earth' is a salty folk- tale of poor whites in the Deep South, while Man Bring This Up Road' is related to Williams's play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a variation on the theme of imminent death. Grand' is a portrait of a remarkable old lady, and Mama's Old Stucco House' a delicate yet powerful commentary on the relationship between Negro and White, in this case the bond between the son of a dying woman and his mother's faithful servant. inventory #7293 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest. New Directions Books, New York, 1966.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have slight edge rubbing. Page edges a little browned. Some yellow spotting to the endpapers and there is a small label for Gilbert's Books, Hollywood & Vine on the front pastedown. The pages are generally otherwise unmarked. The price-clipped jacket has a two inch closed tear at the top of the spine running down the edge of the front panel and another at the bottom of the spine which has been repaired with tape to the reverse. A litte browning and yellowing in places around the edges of the jacket. Jacket illustration taken from a drawing by Salvador Dali. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A moderate soiling/stain to top edge, slightly affecting edge of cloth, else a very good copy in a slightly soiled dust jacket, with similar soiling to verso of dust jacket.
Seller: Albatross Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With light sunning to spine, otherwise like new - a crisp, clean copy.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. THE KNIGHTLY QUEST. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 183 pages; Touch of yellowing to white jacket with a very tiny chip. Name and date on front free endpaper.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo (20 x 15 cm). 183 pp. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Price clipped DJ in Mylar.
Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. The Knightly Quest: and other stories.. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$27.55 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. Cloth with dustwrapper, 183 pp., 14x20x1,5 cm, lightly faded dustwrapper, in very good condition.
Seller: Antiquariaat Fenix, Amsterdam, Netherlands
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest (and other stories). New Directions, NY, 1966.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The white dustwrapper shows a few marks (primarly to spine) and a small chip to the edge of the front panel. An acceptable, reasonably priced first edition.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. The Knightly Quest. New Directions, United States of America, 1966.
Price: US$28.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Knightly Quest by Tennessee Williams, Hardcover, First US Edition (1966). Book in very good condition, in a similar unclipped dust jacket. The book has bumping to the spine ends and some wear (fading) to the front and back panels. The dust jacket shows general wear and ageing, including internally, with some closed and open tears and nicks. (See pictures). The book comprises of a novella and four short stories by this renowned American playwright.
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest. New Directions, N.Y., 1966.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing. Near Fine (crisp, lightly read) in like dust jacket (price clipped). A collectible copy!
Seller: Bob's Rare Books, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. The Knightly Quest. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tennessee Williams - The Knightly Quest. New Directions (1966). First edition, in blue-black cloth. A very good copy in a VG+ price-clipped, very lightly worn jacket. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small octavo. Condition: small amount of spotting to top & bottom edges of the both covers; else near fine in fine DJ. 183 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 183pp. Minor age-toning to jacket and margins of textblock, top edge of boards mildly sunned. A tight, clean, unmarked copy. A few closed tears and nicks to top edge of dust jacket. Very Good.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Novella and Four Short Stories. 8vo. Original cloth; DJ. Book is near fine. Jacket is edgewon with a couple of small chips.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest a Novella and Four Short Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.80 + shipping
Description: Crandell A30.I. One of 6000 copies printed, this copy in the second binding. Dustwrapper design by Salvador Dali. Fine in a price-clipped, otherwise Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. THE KNIGHTLY QUEST. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: THE KNIGHTLY QUEST, New Directions, 1966, first edition, fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some faint foxing to the dust-wrapper spine and a short closed tear to the head of each front flap fold of the dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest: A Novella and Four Other Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original black cloth with author's phot on rear panel. One of only 6000 printed. Price clipped, else fine and unmarked in a Brodart jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ has some soiling to back and spine. Price intact. Protected in mylar. Book is clean and tight with minimal rubbing to extremities.
Seller: Linda's Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Crandell A 30.1.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. THE KNIGHTLY QUEST; A Novella and Four Short Stories. New Directions, NY, 1966.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 183. Fine, in price-clipped dj. The stories are: Mama's Old Stucco House, Man Bring This Up Road, The Kingdom of Earth, and "Grand."
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest, and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, navy blue cloth, d.w. New York: New Directions, (1966). First Edition. The dust wrapper, not price-clipped, is toned at the edges.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$67.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Condition: Fine. Small 8vo., 183 pp. Blue linen boards with spine titles in gilt. A collection of playwright Williams' uncommon forays into fiction. The covers have just the slightest hints of shelf curl and wear to the spine ends and corners, but are otherwise immaculate. Likewise, there are 2 very small ink marks at the top and a very light smudge at the bottom of the half-title, but otherwise the text is as-new, and the binding is tight as a drum. In a NF dj with some very faint soiling, a touch of warping at the spine ends, and a small scratch across the back author photo, but otherwise in excellent shape. Further protected by mylar. An exquisite copy.
Seller: Aesthete's Eye Books, West Jordan, UT, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. THE KNIGHTLY QUEST. New York: A New Directions Book, 1966, 1966.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Novella and Four Short Stories. 183 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. White DJ with black drawing by Salvador Dali on front cover; b/w photograph of aurthor on back. FINE/VG.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. The Knightly Quest. New York New Directions 1966, 1966.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Near fine copy with a very slight touch of edge wear in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest. New York: New Directions, 1966.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. A novella and four short stories. Blue cloth; light corner wear. Light tanning to the paste-downs. The price is present on the DJ which has yellowed with age; it shows dusting and one small chip.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 183 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [viii], 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in fine white unclipped dust jacket with drawing by Dali on cover
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [viii], 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed. Cloth. Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket by Salvador Dali
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. The Knightly Quest. New York New Directions 1966, 1966.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Fine fresh copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1966.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated 1966, the year of publication on front free end paper. Light soiling to this white dust jacket, slight toning to the spine. Slight fading to the gold letters on the spine of the book.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. The Knightly Quest. New York New Directions 1966, 1966.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. This copy is signed by the author, Tennessee Williams, and belonged to fellow Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Lanford Wilson, and bears WilsonÕs autograph ownership signature, as well as WilsonÕs ownership ink stamp which reads: ÒLanford Wilson - Sag Harbor, N.Y.Ó Lanford Wilson is best known for his plays, The Hot L Baltimore, The Mound Builders, and TalleyÕs Folly for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. A superb association copy by the author. Near fine in a fine bright dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.