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Green, Henry. Pack My Bag: A Self Portrait Green, Henry. The Hogarth Press Ltd, 1940.
Price: US$44.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library hardback with dustjacket. Slight shelfwear to DJ and some stamps. Ffep has been removed. No damage to text. Good condition.
Seller: Buckle's Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
HENRY GREEN.. Pack My Bag. A Self-Portrait.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$96.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition (first printing), of which 1,500 copies were printed. 8vo. 246pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked, with a little fraying to the backstrip ends and a minor slant to the binding. Spine lettering a little dulled, with some creasing to the upper corner of the final text leaf, and the binding just a little tender at one gathering. A good copy, really very crisp internally. No dust wrapper. The author's fourth book, a "nearly-accurate" autobiography, dashed out at the ripe old age of 35 to precede his almost-certain demise during World War Two (in face Green survived the war, where he served as a fireman in the Auxiliary Fire Service, experiences echoed in his fifth book, the novel 'Caught'). Uncommon. Woolmer 468.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Green, Henry.. Pack my Bag. A Self-Portrait.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy in speckle-y blue cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. Spine crimped and somewhat dulled. Text and endpapers clean, binding sound. Top edge dusty. 246pp. "I was born a mouthbreather with a silver spoon in 1905, three years after one war and nine before another, too late for both." An eccentric autobiography. Q05958
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
GREEN, Henry. Pack My Bag.. London: Hogarth Press: , First edition,, 1940.
Price: US$244.65 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 246pp, orig. cloth gilt. A VG+ copy in the second issue dustwrapper which has a split at the head of upper joint (without loss), two minor chips at head and foot of rear panel and slightly darkened on spine, else a VG decent copy. (Woolmer, 468. One of 1,500 copies. Unsold copies re-jacketed as No.3 in the Hogarth Crown Library series.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
GREEN,, Henry.. Pack My Bag. A Self-Portrait by Henry Green.. London, Hogarth Press, 1940., 1940.
Price: US$298.62 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 246pp, original red cloth boards in slightly worn grey dustwrapper with faded spine and spine price cut out, a very good copy. First edition. Only 1500 printed (Woolmer 468).
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
GREEN, Henry. Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait. Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in spine-tanned good plus, second issue dustwrapper with the folds professionally reinforced. Author's quirky memoir, written when he was 33, and in anticipation of what he believed to be his coming slaughter.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GREEN, HENRY. Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$937.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight darkening to spine; small abrasion to middle of spine. Pages show some age darkening, mostly to outer edges, upper edges darkened; some browning to endpages from pastedown glue. Signatures started, but binding remains tight. Dustjacket shows wear to outer corners & head & heel of spine panel with some light creasing to upper & lower edges. Spine panel darkened with some scuffing to edges & panel itself. Isolated dampstaining to all panels; dustsoil over all.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada