Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition with some wear and missing dust jacket.
Seller: GridFreed, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rather faded, soiled, stained and worn boards. Extremities are rubbed, starting through the cloth in places. Binding is holding together well. Previous owner's inscription at ffep. Interior is age-toned with some minor soiling, text remains clean and clear.
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three short novels written between 1936 and 1939 by the esteemed writer and teacher. Her uncommon second book, much before her 1966 Pulitzer Prize for her short stories. Original grey cloth with titles in black on the front and the slightly faded spine. Inside, as new. No prior owner marks, no stains or browning. A very tight, clean copy.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original gray cloth. Porter won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1966. Armorial bookplate of Eben Draper, Very Good. No Dust Jacket.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with black lettering. Light sunning to spine, with several small spots to top edge of front board. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Contains three short novels: Old Mortality, a story of race tracks, of the Deep South, of the survival and shattering of a family legend; Noon Wine, Texas and a dairy farm rescued from decay by a man who turns out to be an escaped lunatic from Dakota and of the tragedy that ended it all; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a mystical story of the narrow ledge between life and death, set at the time of the 1918 flu epidemic.
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: This fourth printing copy has the ownership signature of "Madeleine L'Engle Camp / March 4, 1941 / Bird-in-Hand-Court" to the front pastedown in black ink. The three short novels are: Old Mortality, Noon Wine, and Pae Horse, Pale Rider. From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider', where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiancé on his way to war, and 'Noon Wine', a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. In all of the compelling stories collected here, harsh and tragic truths are expressed in prose both brilliant and precise. As for Madeleine L'Engle, she is perhaps best recognized as the author of A Wrinkle in Time (1962), the enduring milestone work of fantasy fiction that won the 1963 John Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature and has enthralled millions of readers. A very good copy bound in light green cloth (spine sunned) lacking the dust jacket
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1939.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Dust jacket with a few very short edge tears and chips.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1939.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Later printing (circa 1944) of Porter's second collection of stories (after two versions of Flowering Judas). No statement of printing on copyright page. Rear flap of dustjacket promotes The Leaning Tower, published in 1944, as a "new collection." Fine in very good plus dustjacket with moderate wear but good color. A worthwhile alternative to the first printing, which is notably scarce in dustjacket.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1939.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 264 pages. In Good condition with Poor dust jacket. Gray and black spine with Gray and black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has interior flaps detached, chipping to edges, sunning to spine, and tearing to front joint. Boards have rubbing to corners and edges and cocking to spine. Textblock has light age toning, writing in pen on front free endpaper, and splitting to rear pastedown. Shelved Case 6. 1371991. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: Porter [1890 - 1980] received the first annual gold medal for literature in 1940 from the Society of Libraries of New York University for this collection of novels. 8vo, 264pp, gray/green cloth covers, black titles on spine and front. Spine tips sunned. Original dj price-clipped in green/black, chipped with loss at spine tips and bottom edge. Internally clean, other than red pencil mark in margin on p264.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1939.
Price: US$374.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth. First Edition. Fading on spine, Very Good, in Good price-clipped Dust Jacket with creases on front and back cover and minor edge wear and tears.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Usual slight toning at the extremities of the boards, else near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning at the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's rubber stamped date. Author's uncommon second book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Neat contemporary owner name, slight toning at the extremities of the boards, else near fine in very good dust jacket with toning, small stains, and shallow loss at the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's gelatin silver photograph of the author by noted photographer George Platt Lynes laid in. Author's uncommon second book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4'' x 5 3/4''. 264pp. Spine of dustjacket faded, with some wear and soiling. Price clipped. Pages toned. Bookplate.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in very near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight sunning at the spine. A much nicer than usual copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$660.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); sage green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],264pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else Fine, with the yellow topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, with some light wear at the heel; Near Fine. An uncharacteristically well-preserved copy of Porter's second book, a collection of three short novels written between 1936-1939. The title story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, is a semi-autobiographical work documenting the relationship between a newspaper woman and a soldier during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic; Porter herself was stricken with influenza while living in Denver, Colorado, where who wrote for the Rocky Mountain News.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Green cloth with dark green lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 264pp. Very good/very good. Binding faintly worn, though internally tight and near fine; jacket a tad edgeworn with a few tiny edge chips (mainly corners), though complete and overall attractive. Nice first edition of this compilation of the novellas "Old Mortality," "Noon Wine" and the title tale. This interesting presentation copy is boldly inscribed and signed by Porter on the front flyleaf "For Margaret Harvey / Old Mortality vanquished / so far! / Katherine Anne / Aug. 3 1942." In 1918 Porter worked briefly for the "Rocky Mountain News" in Denver, and there befriended fellow journalist Harvey. Below her inscription, Harvey adds her own dates of employment at this newspaper: "Denver: September 1: October 15, 1918-1919." Porter left the paper when the 1918 flu pandemic nearly killed her; when discharged from the hospital she was bald and her hair grew back white -- and the ordeal from which she felt "vanquished" informs these tales. (Forty-seven years later Porter wrote Harvey a long letter in which she chatted about their time at the "Rocky Mountain News" and how it provided the framework for "Pale Horse.") An intriguing copy of a scarce title.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.