Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day. Albondocani Press / Ampersand Books, 1986, 1986.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, side-stitched, wrappers, 4pp. A Christmas greeting. Directed to Andreas Brown of Gotham Book Mart, original mailing envelope present. VG+: clean, bright and sound. An edition of 350.
Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
PRICE, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day. Albondocani Press, [New York], 1986.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Description: One of 350 copies. Letterpress printed bifolium, stapled into pictorial card wrappers and housed in the original white unprinted envelope. Fine in a Near Fine envelope. A single poem, issued as a holiday greeting.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day [Cover title]. Albondocani Press, 1986.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: [4] pages. 4-3/4 by 7 inches. A poem; one of 350 copies to be used as a holiday greeting by the author and publisher. No copies were for sale. No mention of publisher on first page. Cover art by Robert Dunn. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled, green wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
PRICE, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day. Albondocani Press, (New York), 1986.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. Very faint smudge on front wrap, else fine in stapled wrappers with cardboard stiffener and envelope (mailed and showing normal wear). One of 350. Inscribed by the publisher to noted New York bookman Ray Roberts. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Printed as a holiday greeting from the poet and the publisher and not offered for sale.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day.. NP: Albondocani Press, 1986., 1986.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Limited edition 1-250 numbered copies Limited to 350 copies printed as a holiday greeting by the author and publisher. 16mo. [4] pp. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. Stapled green illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by the publisher on the title page. In addition, although not called for, the pamphlet is SIGNED by Price after his poem. Very fine. Uncommon thus.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
PRICE, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day. Albondocani Press, (New York), 1986.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. Fine in stapled wrappers with cardboard stiffener and envelope, addressed in Reynolds' hand (showing normal wear). One of 350 copies. Inscribed on the first page to editor and friend Harry Ford and his wife: "& love to K. & Harry / from Reynolds Price. 1986." Harry Ford was an editor at Atheneum, publisher of Reynolds Price's early trade publications. Harry Ford also designed most of the Reynolds Price titles published by Atheneum, and Price dedicated his play "Early Dark" to Harry and Kathleen Ford. A poem issued as a Christmas greeting by the publisher and author, with a nice association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
PRICE, Reynolds. Noon Rest, Best Day. Albondocani Press, New York, 1986.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Page proofs. Oblong octavos sheets with printed rectos only. Fine. Published as a limited edition of 350 copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.