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Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated third printing. Light wear. Book plate inside cover. Clean text. F13
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and other stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$19.20 + shipping
Description: 129p., spine rubbed otherwise good third printing stated in black boards and price-clipped dust jacket with third printing stated, light edgewear, and light foxing to verso of dust jacket. Originally published in 1948 as a limited edition. Includes original source for "The Night of The Iguana" and a revised version of "Yellow Bird." Young 4153*.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, one of 1500 copies printed. Lacks slipcase. Original publisher's blue and white paper-covered boards backed with red-orange cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge stained red. Boards feature a pattern with a repeating hand motif. 6 1/4" x 10." 210 pages, complete. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight age toning along the edges of the covers. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Back colophon: "Of this edition of One Arm, fifty copies have been printed on Virgil paper and signed by the author, fifteen hundred copies have been printed on a specially-made laid paper, by Peter Beilenson, Mount Vernon, N. Y." A collection of short stories by Tennessee Williams. The stories: "One Arm," "The Malediction," "The Poet," "Chronicle of a Demise," "Desire and the Black Masseur," "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," "The Important Thing," "The Angel in the Alcove," "The Field of Blue Children," "The Night of the Iguana," and "The Yellow Bird." Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was an American author and playwright. He wrote a number of plays that received critical acclaim. He is perhaps best-known for his plays, _The Glass Menagerie_ (1944) and _A Streetcar Named Desire_ (1947).
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm. New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Description: New York. 1948. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front,Otherwise Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With tears & Some Small Pieces Missing. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. keywords: Drama America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Until now this collection of Tennessee Williams' early fiction has been available only in an expensive limited edition, which was sold out soon after its publication in 1948 and since then has been difficult to obtain at any price in the rare-book market. Although not reviewed then, it established Mr. Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Here are all eleven stories of the original volume, republished finally in a trade edition because of an increasingly insistent public demand. One of them, The Yellow Bird,'' is in the revised version Mr. Williams read in his well-known recording. This story of the minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt bids fair to become a part of American mythology. Each of the stories has qualities that make it memorable. One Arm' itself, about an ex-prize fighter awaiting execution, has its own compassion. The Field of Blue Children' explores the strange ways of the human heart in love. Portrait of a Girl in Glass' is a luminous and nostalgic story about the central characters Williams used in The Class Menagerie, and it reveals something of the way he lives with and works over his material. Desire and the Black Masseur' is an already famous excursion into the logic of the macabre. inventory #20387 Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front,Otherwise Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With tears & Some Small Pieces Missing
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. NY: New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dj (foxing to verso of dj and to rear dj panel; slight crease to upper right edge of front inner dj flap). 3rd printing. "Third Printing" stated to copyright page. Clean text and tight binding. A nice copy. 211pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$33.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo; VG; pp 210; quarter bound reddish brown spine with gilt text; no jacket; dark blue slipcase exterior has sunning to spine and edges;minor rubbing wear to edges; paper label to front; cloth has navy and cream patterned front and rear exterior shows minimal wear; tight binding; strong boards; text block exterior edges have slight tone; mild offsetting to endpapers; previous owner's name to ffep; interior very good. 1355485. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories [First Edition]. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 210 pages. One of 1500 copies of the first edition printed by Peter Beilenson.
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. A New Directions Book, 1948.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. Limited to 1500 copies. Un-signed. Hard bound in slip case. No dust jacket as issued. Slip case shows significant wear, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 120pp, Cloth spine with paper covered boards, with slipcase that is wearing at edges.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. One Arm and other Stories.. New York New Directions Book ( ), 1948.
Price: US$66.29 + shipping
Description: Large 8°. 210 (1) pp. Original half cloth with slipcase. First Edition. One of 1500 copies. - Slipcase with soiling and chipping. Book in fine condition. Gewicht (Gramm): 548
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition. Clean text, tight binding. Slipcase has edge and corner wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 1500 copies. Very Good+ with light wear to spine ends. The slipcase is intact but with peeling/layer loss and splits.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. One Arm. New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition. Not price-clipped ($4.50 price intact). Published by New Directions, 1948. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in silver and gold. Book is like new, clean and crisp. Sharp corners and spine straight. Dust jacket is very good with some shelf and edgewear and a few small tears. 211 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ships with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall 8vo, cloth backed patterned boards.; front hinge cracked. New York: New Directions, (1948). Limited first edition. One of 1500 copies. Very good copy, lacking the slipcase.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES printed on specially made Laid paper and bound in quarter brown gilt cloth over decorated boards, in the original blue slipcase with title label. Book is fine and unmarked. Slipcase is very good, clean and bright with very small paper cover losses at two corners.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice first edition. One of 1500 copies. Slipcase is worn, especially along the edges, with several nips and tears. Book is clean, but spine has a noticeable mark at the bottom, as if there was a sticker there that was eventually removed. The spine is also faded. The slipcase has a sticker on it saying Limited Edition. The original price of $7.50 is on the sticker.
Seller: Charles Ealy, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. One Arm and Other Stories. A New Directions Book, New York, 1948.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: A New Directions Book, 1948. First Edition, Second State with title page a cancel. Tall octavo. 210 pp. With acetate dust jacket, presumed original. Red-brown cloth over paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase with paper title label to front. Light scuffing to dust wrapper. Boards with very light rubbing to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase worn at edges with exposure; neat but amateur paper tape repair to length of vertical edge of closed side, else stable and sound. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good slipcase.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, [New York], 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, second state with copyright page a cancel. Fine with bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown in about near fine slipcase with corners well rubbed and with some splitting.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. ONE ARM and other stories. A NEW DIRECTION BOOK, NY, 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. One Arm and Other Stories.. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. One of 1400 copies in brown buckram over hand-print decorated blue paper covered boards, in slipcase. Second State with tipped-in title page to correct copyright. 211pp. Book is Fine, slipcase is Fine, but for blue offset from glue under label. Q14272
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, [New York], 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, second state with copyright page a cancel. Two tiny stains on front fly, boards a little soiled, near fine in a tape repaired good slipcase.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES.. NEW DIRECTIONS. NY 1948, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. One of 1500 copies. Near fine in a Nf. slipcase. Reddish brown cloth & patterned boards in a blue slipcase with a paper label. (Faint touch of damping at upper edge of last few pages in text. A few spots of light soiling at edges of cloth. Edges of slipcase discolored. Light rubbing to slipcase)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. ONE ARM; And other stories. New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, pp. 210. One of 1500 copies. Flyleaf torn, Owner's name on blank and date on pastedown, o/w VG in worn box.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, [New York], 1948.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, second state with copyright page a cancel. Tiny crack in the paper over the front hinge, else fine in moderate worn, very good or better slipcase. Advance Review Copy with publisher's promotional letter laid in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Audrey Wood's stamped copy. Buckram and decorated cloth in original blue paper slipcase
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited issue, with the first state of the title page integral to the book and with New Directions on the copyright page. Cloth and papercovered boards. Darkening on the hinges, spine a touch sunned, very good in a good to very good publisher's cardboard slipcase with rubbing and sunning on the extremities, bottom edge split. One of fifteen hundred copies printed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth backed boards, a very good copy in lightly worn slipcase. Inscribed by Williams to William Targ, later one of his publishers. Ownership signature of Benjamin Crowell, dated 1949. Crandell A8.1.a2. First edition, usual second state with cancel title page.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, NY, 1948.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st limited edition (there was also a signed limited of only 50 copies), decorated boards with hand design/brick cloth spine. Vg in good slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies; this one SIGNED "Tennessee Williams 1975" at the top of the title page. The spine is sunned, and there is an erasure on the front pastedown, probably of an owner's name. The slipcase is very sunned, and rubbed & chipped on all edges. 210 pp.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, [New York], 1948.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, second state with copyright page a cancel. Small split in front hinge, else fine in worn, good only slipcase. Although not called for, Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. One Arm and Other Stories.. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Issue, Second State with title leaf on a stub. A Fine copy in blond cloth stamped in gold, patterned paper covered boards, top edge gilt, in soft brown paper covered slipcase (also Fine), with side label ("One of Fifty Special Copies on Virgil Paper, Signed by the Author $15"). SIGNED by Williams on the free front endpaper on a tipped-on cut-out, unnumbered but with the limitation statement. 210pp. Beautiful copy! Q16615 Fine in Fine Publisher's Slicase
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee.. ONE ARM, and Other Stories.. New Directions (), 1948.
Price: US$1144.25 + shipping
Description: 9.75 x 6, cloth backed patterned boards, 210 pp, inner front hinge cracked, slight yellowing to covers else ok, in splitting worn box with minor tape repair. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAMS.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall Octavo. SIGNED BY TENNESSE WILLIAM ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. Number 45 of 50 copies printed on Virgil paper, 210(1)pp., bound in 1/4 white vellum paper over patterned paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine crisp copy in fine paper covered slipcase.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES. NY New Directions 1948, 1948.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition, limited to 1,500 copies, quarter cloth over patterned boards in paper slipcase with label, Fine in Fine Slipcase, SIGNED, very scarce signed.
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES. New Directions (1948), (New York), 1948.
Price: US$1687.50 + shipping
Description: Parchment-backed decorated boards. Crandell A8.I.b. Copy #12 of only 50 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. This copy belonged to Frederic Dannay, half of the writing team that was mystery writer Ellery Queen, and though it has no ownership markings it comes with a signed statement of provenance from Dannay's son. Very mild darkening to the spine. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 210 pages. First limited edition, Number 11 of 50 copies printed on Virgil paper and signed by Williams on a special limitation page at the beginning of the book. Second state of this 1st printing with the title page on a stub because the publisher recalled the edition because it was issued with an incorrect copyright notice. Fine book with a touch of toneing to the spine in a near fine publisher's slipcase with slight wear to the top set of corners. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. One Arm and Other Stories. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue, with the first state of the title page integral to the book and with New Directions on the copyright page. Cloth and papercovered boards. A touch rubbed on the spine, easily near fine in very good cardboard slipcase with rubbing and small tears. Although not called for, this copy is Signed by the author. Reportedly only about 50 copies of the first issue were printed. This issue is exceptionally scarce, and especially so signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES. New Directions (1948), [New York], 1948.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed decorated boards. Crandell A8.I.a. Second State of the First Printing with the title page on a stub. Less than 50 copies of the first state exist. Interestingly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "Yes, suh, two arms is/better, boy!/Tennessee/and a foot or two/don't hurt, neither!" About Fine in a close to Very Good slipcase with some loss of paper at the very bottom edge and some splitting, but still intact
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.