Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: 211p., first American edition. Hardbound in black papered boards lettered grey, with a canary yellow cloth backstrip lettered black, lacks the jacket. The yellow cloth is lightly handling- and dust-soiled, boards have slightly turned corner-tips, otherwise clean and sound, and perfectly unmarked in any way; a good not-quite-collectable copy. Bellow's fourth book and second fiction. Includes the title novella, the stories "A Father-to-Be" "Looking for Mr. Green" & "The Gonzaga Manuscripts" and the play "The Wrecker"
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. Seize The Day. The Viking Press, 1956.
Price: US$23.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956. 211 pages. No dust jacket. Black and yellow cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Bellow, Saul. SEIZE THE DAY. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 211 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine beige with black, red and green lettering. Sunned spine with slight soiling wear and few chips to the edges. Boards have lightly sunned spine with mild wear to the exterior. Text block shows moderate age toning and mild offsetting to the end papers. First Edition. 1371495. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 211 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with black titles to yellow cloth spine. Sunfade to edges & spine. Tear to p. 99. Light, marginal toning throughout. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout. Record # 751142
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day: With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play. The Viking Press, 1956.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. A Very Good copy of the first edition in a Very Good jacket (book has slight bumping and wear to edges; jacket spine a bit faded with slight edge wear).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover bound in yellow and black cloth, in dust jacket. Foxing and fading along jacket spine and several small chips along jacket edges. Previous owner's name and "St. Paul" in ink on front end pages.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
BELLOW, Saul. Seize The Day. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. One signature slightly sprung. Very good dust jacket; spine faded, small chips & tears.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.96 + shipping
Description: 211 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First Edition, first printing. - Spine of dust jacked faded. Gewicht (Gramm): 470
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
BELLOW, Saul. Seize the Day. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 211 pages. Includes the title poem along with three short stories and the one act play "The Wrecker." A tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a very good dust jacket with some light wear, some small tears, some sunning to the spine and some needless tape repairs to the verso.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day with Three Short Stories & a One-Act Play. Viking Press NY. 1956, 1956.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: 211pp. 8vo. Black cloth & yellow cloth back 1st edition. Yellow portion of covers lightly soiled, sunned: VG/no dj
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. The Viking Press, 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' (Irish Times). "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' (New York Times). Basis for the well received motion picture starring Robin Williams.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. Viking Press, NY, 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1956 Viking Press First Ed. First printing in VG/Fair condition. The HB has darkening of the ocher along the spine and onto the boards. Other than a previous owner's last name the interior is clean and tight. The unclipped DJ ( $3.00) is missing the spine below the letter E in Bellow. There is minor loss at the top spine end as well. There are chips and staining on the back cover but Bellows photo is bright.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. SEIZE THE DAY. The Viking Press, 1956.
Price: US$97.06 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.3
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day Bellow, Saul. The Viking Press, 1956.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition 1st printing - brand new facsimile dust jacket - some staining to cover and page edge - owner's name inside cover - minor wear to edge of cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
BELLOW, Saul. Seize The Day. Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; black and yellow cloth, with titles stamped in dark gray on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 211pp. Dust soil to extremities, but still a straight, Near Fine copy with top-stain deep and even. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), gently spine-sunned, else just mildly rubbed at extremities; Very Good+. The author's fourth book, containing three short stories and a one-act play.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Description: Yellow cloth and black paper covers, yellow top-edge. A beautiful copy with ever-so-slight sunning to ends of spine, and 1/2" rubbed patch on title-page. Jacket has sunning to spine, 1.5" closed tear at foot of spine, and some edgewear with several other 1/8" closed tears. Overall, a respectable copy of this early, important, and scarce Bellow book. Text clean, spine strong. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. Viking, E-048, 1956.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. The Viking Press. 1956. 211 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present (chipping present to the DJ spine ends; light fading present to the spine). Bound in half cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once cast him as the "type that loses the girl") , and in a financial mess. E-048; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Description: Yellow cloth and black paper covers, yellow top-edge. A beautiful copy with ever-so-slight sunning to ends of spine, and 1/2" rubbed patch on title-page. Jacket has sunning to spine, 1.5" closed tear at foot of spine, and some edgewear with several other 1/8" closed tears. Overall, a respectable copy of this early, important, and scarce Bellow book. Text clean, spine strong. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. Seize the Day. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book Condition: Near Fine. Clean and tight, cloth bright yellow, unmarked through out. All corners sharp, just like paper block. Mildest of toning, as expected on paper block of it's age. It's only fault. Bright yellow top stain. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Original jacket priced at $3.00 intact, sunning at the jacket spine, some closed tears to spine ends but no paper loss there.Three small chips in all. One on top of front panel, bottom rear panel and rear fold 1/2 way up. Some over all rubbing but it is really quite attractive. As a collector myself, I don't like surprises. All flaws listed. Jacket is protected in mylar cover and book placed in archival bag.
Seller: Rose Hill Books, Yonkers, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 211 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in rubbed dust jacket with staining to bottom panel, minor wear to top edge
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day. The Viking Press, 1956.
Price: US$213.98 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New!
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day - SIGNED. Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Top front corner bumped, spine ends pushed. Jacket slightly faded with the spine more so. Soiling to the jacket, wear to the edges and corners.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize The Day.. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' (Irish Times). "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' (New York Times). Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook, starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Gabels with best wishes from an old exile to Evanston Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors and earned bachelorâs degrees in anthropology and sociology. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' (Irish Times). "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' (New York Times). Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook, starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Gabels from their well-dressed friend (who in Italian silk, couldn't look less like a writer) with best wishes Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors and earned bachelorâs degrees in anthropology and sociology. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' (Irish Times). "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' (New York Times). Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook, starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. SEIZE THE DAY. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Frist Printing. Octavo (21cm); black paper and yellow cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and in blind on front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],211,[5]pp. Tiny ownership label of Black Sparrow Press publisher John K. Martin at lower edge of rear pastedown. Hint of sunning at crown, a handful of tiny foxed spots along front joint, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), with some trivial edge wear, with light dust-soil and some faint, scattered foxing to extremities, particularly along upper edge of rear flap and rear flap fold; a bright, Near Fine copy, the spine panel still a rich yellow, and no fading to the lettering. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book, containing the title novella, three short stories, and a one-act play. "The title piece, a truncated novelette which is heavily introspective, concerns a New York Jew who has failed miserably in marriage, as he longs for love and respect from his proud physician father, and earns a livelihood as a salesman and investor. During the moment of recognition he realizes that his life, dependent as it is on the past, is a futile anachronism" (Kirkus Review, Nov.1, 1956). Basis for Fielder Cook's 1986 film adaptation, starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. A superior copy of an exceedingly difficult title, prone to heavy wear, with the spine almost always faded.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.