Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
WILSON.EDMUND. NOTE-BOOKS OF NIGHT.. COLT PRESS,SAN FRANCISCO.1942., 1942.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION.BOOK IS NF.A BOOK OF WILSON'S POETRY.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Note-Books of Night. The Colt Press, San Francisco, Ca, 1942.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A collection of the author's poetry and prose. Many pieces previously appeared in the NEW YORKER and other magazines. Some sun-fading to the covers and the front and rear pastedowns are darkened.Bookseller's prior price and info on FFE. Also several stray pencil marks. Contents are otherwise clean and the binding remains tight.
Seller: Uncle Bill's Books, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Note Books of Night.. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 113p. Publishers cloth. Lacks the dust jacket otherwise internally clean. Some light soiling to the boards
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. NOTE-BOOKS OF NIGHT. Colt Press, San Francisco, CA, 1942.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: San Francisco, CA: Colt Press. Good plus condition-paper yellowed, endpapers stained/No Dustjacket. 1942. 8vo., 113 pp. . Good plus condition-paper yellowed, endpapers stained/No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. NOTE-BOOKS OF NIGHT. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [viii], 113p. Gray cloth with paper spine and cover labels.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Note Books Of Night. Colt Press, San Francisco, USA, 1942.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of verse & prose (the first such collection from this author). Uncommon. Age toned on spine of dustwrapper. Very minor loss to top of dustwrapper spine
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Edmund Wilson. Note-Books of Night. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. 6.5 x 9.5in. 112pp. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the endpapers lightly toned, one corner lightly bumped, marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows slight edge wear, the spine is lightly toned, a short closed tear of the back panel, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. NOTE BOOKS OF NIGHT. The Colt Press: San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9.5 x 6.5", cloth with title label on front cover, 113pp, covers rubbed and yellowed, extremities bumped and a bit worn, endpapers unevenly toned, former owner's ink info on front fly, some light spotting to foredge of textblock; with a small bookstore label ("Newbegin's" in SF) inside rear cover; in a rubbed, soiled, torn and edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Edmund Wilson. Note-Books of Night. Colt Press, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 113 pages. The book consists of three sections: I with 25 poems; II with 4 poems; III with 6 essays. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with a short tear at the top of the spine. Some offsetting from endpapers, but a very nice copy.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund.. Note-Books of Night.. Colt Press, 1942, 1942.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Trade Edition. A strong Very Good copy in medium grey cloth, spine and front cover labels, in a Very Good or better dull grey-green dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Small spotting to front upper spine-fold. Jacket with tiny nicks to points. 113pp. A miscellany of poems, satires, and brief prose pieces. Q12646
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Note-Books of Night. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$82.22 + shipping
Description: EA, gr 8°, Lwd. m. OSU., 112 S. - Schutzumschlag am Buchrücken stärker nachgedunkelt und etwas fleckig, Namenseintrag, sonst gutes Exemplar. / First editon. Dustjacket browned on spine, Name on first page.
Seller: Graphem. Kunst- und Buchantiquariat, Berlin, Germany
Wilson, Edmund. Note-Books of Night. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 8vo. (8) 112 (8) pp. First Trade Edition, 1942. Not Price Clipped. A very small chip near bottom spine dj with a light stain near bottom edge front panel, and very little additional external wear to same. A tiny tear to cloth spine, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Light-green cloth with in-laid decorative green title plate with black lettering on front board and spine. In acetate protector. "This was the first collection od Wilson's verse and non-critical prose in some years. It contains many of his best known pieces, as well as poetry & prose never before published." from the jacket flap. Size: Large Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
WILSON, Edmund. Note-Books of Night. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, trade issue. Octavo. 113pp. Cloth with publisher's printed paper spine and cover label. A few tiny soil spots on cloth, second rear blank flyleaf has moderate chip at lower fore-corner (approximately 1" x 2"), else a very good copy in very good dust jacket with toned spine, two small chips and a few short tears, else quite bright.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILSON, Edmund.. Note-books of Night.. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1942., 1942.
Price: US$112.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade edition. (preceded by a signed edition). Bound in pale green cloth. Name on e/paper o/w very good.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Wilson, Edmund. NOTE-BOOKS OF NIGHT. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Very good or better with light offset on endpapers and a small bookplate on front pastedown (under flap); in a price-clipped dust jacket with spine and edges age darkened, minor edge wear, light soiling and section at top edge of front flap excised (approximately half-inch deep). Still, a nice copy of this scarce book.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. NOTE-BOOKS OF NIGHT. Colt Press, 1942.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: Colt Press, 1st Ed., 1942, Hardcover, 8vo., 112pp. Original binding with untrimmed pages. Sound binding, bright pages and text, light soiling to spine, no ownership markings. DJ chipped, not clipped, endpapers lightly glue-stained, light tanning along spine edge, in Mylar wrap. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking. Edmund Wilson was an American writer of plays, poems and novels but was most influential as an editor at ?Vanity Fair?, book reviewer at ?The New Yorker?, and respected literary critic. Wilson attended Princeton with F. Scott Fitzgerald who referred to him as his ?intellectual conscience? and his works influenced novelists Upton Sinclaire and Thodore Dreiser among many others.Wilson was selected by John F Kennedy to receive ?The Presidential Medal of Freedom? and was quoted as saying ?Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals? This book contains many of Wilson?s most influential poetic works.
Seller: Resource for Art and Music Books , Ivoryton, CT, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Note-Books of Night. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in about very good dustwrapper with age-toning, and shallow chipping at the extremities.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILSON, Edmund.. Note-Books of Night.. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1942., 1942.
Price: US$299.19 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition. (preceded by a signed edition). Binding variant in grey cloth. A fine copy in a lightly worn and soiled d/w.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Wilson, Edmund. Note Books of Night - Association copy. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed and dated in year of publication by author to John Bishop on free endpaper. John Peale Bishop was a friend and co-writer of Wilson of "The Undertaker's Garland." Bishop was also a friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Slight stain to foot of spien, offsetting to endpapers, else book is very good. Jacket has numerous edge chips and soiling to spine.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Edmund Wilson. Note-Books of the Night. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1942.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First issue. 8vo. 112 pp. Green cloth over floral patterned paper boards. Very Good. Some wear to corners. Endpapers toned. Title page signed by Wilson. One of a very small number of the original signed limited copies bound by the Colt Press with a different binding than the trade edition. Unbound sheets from this original edition were bound and issued by Grabhorn-Hoyem in 1972.
Seller: Zed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.