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Ryttenberg, Lillie & Beatrice Lang, compilers. Samples; A Collection of Short Stories . Complied for the Community Workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. Boni and Liveright, 1927.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Black cl., yellow lettering, yellow lettering plus lines to backstr., backstr. has 2 sm. punctures, sl. rubbing top and bottom. Name inside front cover. Short stories have facs. of each author signature at end. ix, 406pp. Contributors: George Ade, Sherwood Anderson, Barry Benefield, Konrad Bercovici, Louis Bromfield, Dorothy Canfield, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, F. Schott Fitzgerald, Zona Gale, John Galsworthy, Sam Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Fannie Hurst, Mary Roberts Rinehart, G. B. Stern, Thyra Samter Winslow, Elinor Wylie.

Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.

Ryttenberg, Lillie, and Beatrice Lang, Compiled by. SAMPLES: A Collection of Short Stories. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$124.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: -Short Stories by George Ade, Sherwood Anderson, Barry Benefield, Konrad Bercovici, Louis Bromfield, Dorothy Canfield, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zona Gale, John Galsworthy, Sam Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Fannie Hurst, Mary Roberts Rinehart, G. B. Stern, Thyra Samter Winslow, Elinor Wylie- Compiled for The Community Workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind by Lillie Ryttenberg and Beatrice Lang- FIRST EDITION- HARDCOVER, GOOD; light wear including edgewear and small bookworm hole (only affecting approximately the bottom corner of the first 40 pp.), age toning. Deckle edge pages. DUST JACKET, GOOD; light wear including a few small chips mostly to head and heel, corners; has ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S PRICE ($2.50); now wrapped in new archival sleeve. 406 pp. SHORT STORIES, AMERICAN AUTHORS, LITERATURE, FICTION, STORY ANTHOLOGY, including PULITZER PRIZE WINNING WRITERS.

Seller: The Maine Bookhouse, Oxford, ME, U.S.A.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Galsworthy, John; Cather, Willa; Hemingway, Ernest. SAMPLES. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First printing of this anthology of the leading lights of the Jazz Age, published to benefit the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. The New York Guild for the Jewish Blind was founded in 1903 by sculptor and socialite Winifred Holt as a central point for education and aid for the blind of New York City. The Guild published several collections of literature to raise funds for their continued work, including SAMPLES. This volume contains the first book appearance of F. Scott Fitgerald's "The Dance," a jazz age murder mystery, as well as stories by Jazz Age legends Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, and John Galsworthy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with yellow lettering. Original unclipped ($2.50) color pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. x, 406 pages. Jacket with sunning to spine, 1" closed tear on rear panel, verso with a few unobtrusive tape repairs. Binding with light edgewear, mild bumping to spine ends. A clean copy. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

(Fitzgerald, F. Scott). Samples:; A Collection of Short Stories . . . Compiled for The Community Workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind by Lillie Ryttenberg & Beatrice Lang. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 406pp; black cloth stamped in yellow. The anthology includes the first appearance in a book of Fitzgerald's story "The Dance", which was not otherwise included in any of his lifetime books -- it did appear in "Redbook" magazine. Other contributors include George Ade, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, Ernest Hemingway, Fannie Hurst, Elinor Wylie, and others. Fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with a few chips and small tears.

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

RYTTENBERG, Lillie and Beatrice Lang. Samples: A Collection of Stories. Boni & Liveright for the Community Workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, New York, 1927.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Spine spotted, thus good only in a near very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping. An anthology with first appearances by F. Scott Fitzgerald ("The Dance") and John Galsworthy, as well as contributions by Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and many others. An important anthology, and uncommon in jacket. Jacket art by Samuel B. Schaeffer.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.