Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Melville, Herman. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1971.
Price: US$9.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Herman Melville. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar Straus Giroux February 1971, 1971.
Price: US$9.20 + shipping
Condition: Fair
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Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: price sticker on front. covers soiled,edited and wood cuts by Antonio Frasconi DATE PUBLISHED: 1971 EDITION:
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edited, with equisite b&w woodcuts by the great Antonio Frasconi; the poems, written more than a hundred years ago, have the ring of prophecy to them, with themes of war, conflict and the tragic waste of young lives, with allusions to the Kent State tragedy, etc; a gem of a book and scarce in described condition.
Seller: Orpheus Books, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Herman Melville. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1971.
Price: US$14.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: standard trade edition. unpaginated [25 leaves], Frasconi's striking woodcut engravings nicely compliment selections from Melville's Civil War poems, which have been highly underestimated by many readers and critics, to quote Randall Jarrell. very good copy in an embossed black cloth binding, in a torn d.j.
Seller: Warren F. Broderick - Books, Troy, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edited, and with woodcuts, by Antonio Frasconi. Stated first edition (paperback). Near fine in illustrated wraps.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Herman Melville. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1971.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Trade Edition, First Printing (Stated). Very good with moderate wear to Dust Jacket and no Marks to text. Poetry- Collectible; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages
Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Herman Melville. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971.
Price: US$21.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (Literature, Poetry, Poems)
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition SIGNED. Signed by the fine artist Antonio Frasconi. A lovely edition issued in a hot new time post-Jackson and Kent State showcasing selections from the poems of Melville. Fully signed by Frasconi on the half title page. Very close to fine and bright illustrated glossy warps with strong spine and clean text. Gift quality
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.24 + shipping
Description: . Gr8°. Pappband, OU. Limited Edition. * vom Artist Franconi signiertes + nummeriertes Exemplar, sehr guter Zustand (K44).
Seller: Antiquariat Herold, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by Antonio Frasconi, 9.25 x 7", black cloth, unpaginated, extremities lightly worn, spine ends lightly bumped, minor finger soiling else a nice copy in a rubbed, lightly soiled and lightly edge-worn dustjacket. LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #620), SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, ANTONIO FRASCONI.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Frasconi, Antonio and Herman Melville. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1971.
Price: US$69.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black cloth limited edition hardcover, #965/1000. Signed by Frasconi to the colophon page. Thin white line to rear board, smudge to text block edge, mild dust dulling to top edge else fine condition. DJ in mylar with $5.95 flap price intact has slightly faded red spine titles else fine condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A wonderful pairing of Melville's poetry with editing and exceptional woodcuts by Frasconi. The highly impactful woodcuts address the pain of war-like actions and the unnecessary deaths of youth. Frasconi produced this work in response to the 1970 massacre at Kent State University, a century after Melville published the poetry featured herein. This copy is number 26 of a limited first edition run of 1,000, signed in blue ink by Frasconi.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1971]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 493. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [48]pp.; illus. throughout. Brief faint soil to upper jacket panel, margins and cloth a bit yellowed, light shelf wear, vertical crease along front flap, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Signed by the illustrator on colophon in rear. Attractive and strikingly-illustrated limited edition of this collection of poems published to mark the hundredth anniversary of their composition as well as to draw comparison to the ongoing war in Vietnam: "The poems and parts of poems Antonio Frasconi presents here, along with his woodcuts interpreting them, deal specifically with themes that preoccupy most Americans: war's bitterness, the wasted deaths of young men" (rear jacket flap).
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. On the Slain Collegians. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1971.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #550 of 1000 issued, selections from the poems of Herman Melville, edited, and with woodcuts, by Antonio Frasconi, who has signed this on the limitation page. The top edge of the volume is bumped. This book was made to honor the students killed by the National Guard at Kent State in 1971. Collectible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wayward Books, south dartmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black cloth boards with silver printing on spine and subtle black on black decoration on front. A couple of tiny light fox spots on ffep and a faint one on title page and facing page. Limitations page at back of book. DJ lightly toned across top front, 1/2" tear at bottom front spine edge.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.