Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: IN GOOD CONDITION. 428pp, bound in original maroon cloth, with color illustrated front of dust jacket, mounted inside front cover. "The jacket, quite appropriately, is from an oil painting by Irvin Shope, a western artist and former student of E.S. Paxson and Charles Russell.". BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. Bookplate of James Boyd on ffp, dj flaps mounted in back of book. Covers show worn/bumped corners, upper/lower edge backstrip loss, small damp mark on back cover, with color bleeding onto lower edge of a few pages.
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT.. Doubleday & Caxton Printers, Garden City, New York, 1934.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Some shelf wear and slight fading to the covers. The dust jacket has small chips and tears to the edges and a small scar on the front panel from a label removal.; 428 pages
Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [book is modestly shelfworn, with some light spotting on the top edge and a slightly turned spine; jacket is heavily edgeworn, with bits of paper loss at the extremities, and has been internally tape-reinforced along the front hinge and both flap-folds (the tape now yellowed with age but still holding)]. An early novel by Fisher, about an Idaho farm boy who goes off to college in Pocatello, the first in his family to do so. This was the second book in the author's autobiographical "Vridar Hunter tetralogy," named after the youthful protagonist who was clearly based on himself.
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin the Plot. Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with subtly rubbed extremities Very good with subtle rubbing and foot of spine gently bumped. In dust jacket protector
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin the Plot. Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with lightly rubbed edges
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin the Plot. Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. In transparent dust jacket protector
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin the Plot. Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Very good with rubbed edges. In transparent dust jacket protector
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT. Caxton Printers and Doubleday Doran, 1934.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT, Caxton Printers and Doubleday Doran, 1934, first edition, near fine in vg+ pictorial full color dust-wrapper with some dust soiling to the dust-wrapper spine.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin the Plot. Caxton Printers, 1934.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Darkening to cloth and title on spine. Signed by Fisher on title page. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Jacket illustrated from a painting by Irvin Shope. Corners lightly rubbed, Near fine in a faintly toned near fine dust jacket with modest wear to the extremities and a tiny abrasion on front panel. Second novel in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis.. Passions Spin the Plot.. The Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 428 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards in dust jacket. First edition. Small ownership stamp to front free endpaper; shelf wear to bottom of spine; slightly cocked; otherwise very good in an unworn jacket with a few light smudges and one short closed tear to the top of the back panel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., 428pp. Sharp First Edition, bound in original maroon cloth. Square, tight and clean throughout. A touch of wear to spine ends but quite minor. Paper splitting along the front gutter but hinge intact and secure. A very well preserved copy. Equally attractive unclipped pictorial dust jacket, ($2.50) has some rubbing to hinges and folds. Some edge-wear and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Spine panel lightly soiled. Still bright, fresh and a simply gorgeous example of Art Deco cover illustration. Taken from the oil painting of Irvin Shope portraying a nude in a library. Protected with Mylar. The second novel in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy. A very pretty copy and uncommon in any condition.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT. The Caxton Printers, Caldwell, 1934.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, limited deluxe issue of 75 numbered copies signed by Fisher on the limitation page. Copy #34. Full morocco with gilt title. Illustrated bookplate of religious education writer/proponent Ida S. Blick affixed to the front free endpage. Topedge gilt. Lacks the dustjacket (which Fisher did not like). Board edges and spine fold edges rubbed and worn, spine top and bottom edges with wear and some loss, especially the bottom edge, leather split on bottom half of spine fold, text pages with beginning toning. About Good conditon.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Passions Spin The Plot. The Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1934.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Publisher's burgundy rexine. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, the lightest of wear, strong and handsome, in a very bright and clean example of the pictorial dustjacket. 428pp. Internally clean and fresh. The second title in the semi-autobiographical Vridar Hunter tetralogy, this volume dealing mainly with Hunter's disillusionment at the disappointing nature of college, and the following lack of inspiration. An oustandingly clean copy.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second volume in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy by Vardis Fisher, the first edition of this work. The first edition of this work. Second novel in Vardis Fisher's tetralogy of Vridar Hunter, following the protagonist as he prepares to enter college and skilfully portraying Vridar's turbulent youth. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.Vardis Fisher was an American author known for his historical novels of the Old West.Featuring publisher's advertisements internally to wraps. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor chipping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. The second book in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy, which also included IN TRAGIC LIFE, WE ARE BETRAYED, and NO VILLIAN NEED BE. About fine in dust jacket with minor edge wear.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin The Plot. The Caxton Printers/ Doubleday Doran, 1934.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 428 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Irvin Shope. The second book in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a small (1") skinned area to the bottom of the spine. It looks as if a small label was removed. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Limited Edition of 75 copies signed by the author (this is copy 75). The second book in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy, which also included IN TRAGIC LIFE, WE ARE BETRAYED, and NO Villain NEED BE. Very Good, leather binding with small chip at top rear spine end, in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, half inch chip at top rear panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, trade issue, signed by the author on title-page; 8vo; publisher's burgundy cloth blocked in gilt, a sharp copy, original pictorial dust-jacket, a few small abrasions to upper panel, slight damage to one corner, but otherwise fine. A stunning signed copy of this the second book in Vardis Fisher's 'Vridar Hunter' tetralogy, a series of semi-autobiographical novels set largely in Idaho which established the author as a national writer of significance. This title deals with Hunter's disillusionment during his time studying at college, as it fails to supply the meaning to his life he had hoped for. Fisher was a prolific author, both of locally based fiction and historical epics, notably his vast twelve-volume The Testament of Man chronicling mankind's development from the Stone Age onwards. He had been brought up in a Mormon household, and had always struggled with religious faith, as evidenced in his historical novel Children of God (1939) about Joseph Smith and the Mormon movement.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom