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WARREN, Robert Penn. NIGHT RIDER. Random House, NY, 1939.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 460. A very gooid coopy with the bookplate of poets Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in 1939. His first novel.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early printing. Well-bound boards; spine & corners rubbed and sunned; previous owner's last name neatly inked front endpaper; spot of soil on textbox edge, no bleed through; pages clean and tight.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
WARREN, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth, titles stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; 460pp. Spine mildly sunned, else a tight, straight, Very Good or better copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown of F. Cudworth Flint, Dartmouth College. Warren's first novel, set in the Kentucky Black Patch Tobacco Wars of the early 20th century. HANNA 3690. COAN p.66.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
warern, robert penn. night rider. houghton mifflin, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in jacket with jacket. Jacket is in three pieces but most of it is present. Chipping to top of rear panel and to bottom of spine. Newspaper photo of Warren glued to front endpaper.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert, Penn.. Night Rider. BOSTON: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo: 460pp. In rubbed, grey cloth, with worn and chipped dust wrapper. Fading on spine and around edges of boards. Minor spotting on endpapers.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in very good condition with the original jacket which is very worn and missing a large portion of the spine.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pale blue clothbound octavo printed in red. First edition of the author's first novel. 460 pp. A handsome clean and well-bound copy of this important literary debut. Lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn.. NIGHT RIDER.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$179.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1939, 460pp. Very light wear else VG, in G dj which is lightly chipped at the corners and the bottom of the spine. The top of the spine has a quarter inch open tear. First edition of the author's first novel. A fictional account of the Black Patch Tobacco War in western Kentucky in early 1900. Grimshaw A3.a1.
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. NIGHT RIDER. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, hardcover. Grey cloth with maroon lettering on spine and front board. 460 pages. Very good with spine ends lightly pushed, top corners lightly bumped, and former owner's name of front free endpaper, in a good dust jacket with faded spine, chipping at spine and corners, long chip missing from bottom edge of rear panel, top corner of rear flap clipped but original price of $2.50 present at top corner of front flap, rubbing at the folds and rear panel soiled. Mylar cover on jacket. Author's first novel.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight foxing to book at top edges of covers and top edges of both pastedowns. Light wear to DJ at tips & spine head. Light edge wear at top of DJ. Some tanning to top edge of DJ end-flaps. DJ spine panel slightly sunned, with small stain at top left of spine head. Author's First Novel.
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. First book by RPW. Signed by RPW. Random House, 1939.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 Inches. 460 PP. Signed by Robert Penn Warren directly on the FFEP. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1939. This Random House indicates only as a date, 1939, printed on copyright page . Original publisher cream colored boards with black title stamping to front cover and spine. Price cut off. Grimshaw states "first American edition, second impression" (A3.a2). An excelent copy Jacket exhibits the slightest hint of wear at edges. Neat tape repairs Overall, an excellent copy. Very rare. ONLY ONE OTHER COPY IS OFFERED FOR SALE FAR ABOVE OUR PRICE.
Seller: LEA BOOK DISTRIBUTORS, Jamaica, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren ( Signed Copy ). Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Not Ex-Library Copy. Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.Text Unmarked.Binding Is Solid.Not Ex-Library Copy.D.J. Clipped.No Remainder Mark. First Edition, First Printing. Signed By Author On First Page.
Seller: Thomas Savage, Bookseller, Krotz Springs, LA, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin Company, E-100, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1939. 460 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelfwear (chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities). Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverese of the front board, foxing present to the hinges on both endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn (spine discolored). Warren's first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren's innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. E-100; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$396.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover First Edition. DJ is NOT price clipped ( $ 2.50 ) , and is wrapped in a mylar cover. Dustjacket has about a 1/2" loss at the top of the spine, and some chipping to ends of the spine and corners. The book has no marks in or on it. A very nice copy of Warren's first novel.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. NIGHT RIDER. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Robert Penn Warren's first novel, the story of a young man's fall from grace during the Kentucky Tobacco Wars. Literary critic, poet, and novelist, Robert Penn Warren contributed to a number of genres with ease. NIGHT RIDER, his first published novel, thematically anticipates his later works: it focuses on life in the US South, moral quandries that lead to tragic irony, and the corruption of leaders, leaving characters to struggle against the inevitable. Warren would go on to win Pulitzer Prizes for both a novel and and for poetry - the only person to have won in both categories. This is an attractive copy of an important work in Warren's oeuvre. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original grey cloth boards with red text. Original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial dust jacket. 460 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, some sunning to spine; two tape repairs to verso. Binding with a touch of edgewear, a bit of bumping to spine ends. Sharp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
WARREN, ROBERT PENN. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Warrens first novel. Gray-green cloth with maroon lettering. Near fine, with a touch of sunning and creasing at extreme edges of spine, in very good dustjacket with shallow chipping at spine crown (not affecting lettering), other minor rubs and wear, light dustsoiling to rear panel, but very little of the usual sunning to brown background color of spine panel.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. First Edition; Green cloth, red-stamped lettering, [viii], 460pp [Grimshaw A3. a1; 5000 copies printed]. Author's first novel. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in 1939. Book very good. DJ very good. DJ flap price reads "$2.50.".
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good hardcover in light green boards. Inscribed and Signed by Warren on the title page. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings listed. Light aging to the exterior, with darkening along the spine. Former owner's name to the front paste-down. The text is clean and bright. The binding is square. Overall an attractive copy. 460 pp.
Seller: Outer Print, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
WARREN, Robert Penn.. Night Rider.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$736.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Helen & Ed Case, in recollection of the weeks they helped to make so pleasant in Chapala. Red Warren, August 6, 1941. Chapala." Warren and his wife Cinina moved to Chapala for a few months in the summer of 1941, two years after the publication of this novel. Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, titles to front board and spine in red. With dust jacket. Spine and board edges faded, some spots to cloth, internally clean. A very good copy in the toned jacket with professional repairs along spine and front fold, some shallow chips and nicks to extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WARREN, Robert Penn. NIGHT RIDER. , 1939.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: WARREN, Robert Penn. NIGHT RIDER. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939. First edition of the author's first novel. 8vo., grey cloth. A fine copy in a spine-sunned dust jacket that shows only light soiling at the rear panel. (GRIMSHAW A3.a1).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren. NIGHT RIDER. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine, clean and tight hardcover copy, in a fine, clean and very bright jacket. First Edition. Jacket has had some very minor restoration to top of jackets spine. Restoration is minor and is not noticeable. Author's first novel. A very nice and decent copy. (See Pict's) No tears to jacket. No bumped corners to book.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
WARREN, ROBERT PENN. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A solid copy. Mild sunning to the spine. The complete jacket has some fraying at both spine ends but remains bright and attractive. The jacket is not price-clipped. Inscribed, signed and dated (1940) by the author on the front free endpaper. Robert Penn Warren's first novel of a turn of the century Kentucky tobacco war. Near Fine / Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. Night Rider. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 460 pages. First edition, first printing. Inscribed in March of 1939 by Warren on the first sheet. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in 1939. His first novel. Near fine book with the spine very slightly faded and a touch foxed in a near fine dust jacket with the spine very slightly faded. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.