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RYTTENBERG, Lillie & LANG, Beatrice (editors). Samples: A Collection of Short Stories. Boni & Liveright, U.S., 1927.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A collection of 19 short stories compiled for The Community Workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. Each story ends with a reproduction of the author's signature. Includes Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Dorothy Canfield, Edna Ferber, Galsworthy, Hemingway, Elinor Wylie, etc. Includes the first appearance in a book of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Dance". All authors contributed their stories for free, donating royalties to the Guild. A very good copy. Boards are slightly worn at extremities, spine is a little faded, rear board has faint ring stains, rear hinge is starting but binding is tight and secure. A nice copy of this scarce anthology.

Seller: The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, U.S.A.

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). 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.