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FISHER, Vardis.. Sonnets To An Imaginary Madonna.. Harold Vinal New York, 1927.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Description: First Edition. No DW. Slim 8vo. Black cloth with pink contrasting label piece to spine and front board. Boards are worn and rubbed, slight loss at head of spine. Contents slightly age browned but overall clean and sound. VG.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$29.27 + shipping
Description: First printing. PON stamped to front pastedown, otherwise a VG copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. SONNETS TO AN IMAGINARY MADONNA. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 47 pages; Some rubbing along bottom edge of boards. Price clipped jacket with light wear and a small chip to upper left front.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, E-018, 1927.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927. 47 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is missing the spine). Bound in black paper covered cloth boards with paper titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is scuffed at the spine ends). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vardis Fisher's first book and his first book of poetry. Vardis Alvero Fisher, sometimes written Yardis Fisher, (March 31, 1895 July 9, 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago, Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and then at the Washington Square College of New York University until 1931. He worked with the Federal Writer's Project to write the Works Project Administration The Idaho Guide, which was published in 1937. In 1939, Fisher wrote Children of God, a historical novel focused on the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The novel won the Harper Prize. In 1940, Fisher moved to Hagerman, Idaho, and spent the next twenty years writing the 12-volume Testament of Man (19431960) series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cavemen to civilization. Fisher's novel Mountain Man (1965) was adapted in the film Jeremiah Johnson (1972). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the author first book. Laid-in is a postcard Signed by the Author - The book itself is not signed. The book is in Very Good- condition and lacks the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine joints, and edges of the book covers have heavy rubbing. The bottom front spine joint has cracking. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but there is some light toning to the edges. The endpapers have more noticeable toning. There is some light off-setting to the text pages. "Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 July 9, 1968) was a writer best known for his popular historical novels of the Old West.Fisher was, perhaps, the most significant twentieth century novelist who was both a native and longtime resident of Idaho. He chafed at being compared with such better-known writers associated with the state as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. When appointed to head the Idaho branch of the Federal Writers Project under the WPA, Fisher quipped that he had been chosen because there were only three writers in Idaho, and he was the only one who was unemployed. Frederick Manfred, who was among Fisher's staunchest literary champions, declared that Dark Bridwell (1931) was Fisher's best novel and that Hemingway never wrote anything so good." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets To An Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper labels on front board and backstrip. Good/Very good. Corners of jacket chipped with loss. Majority of jacket's spine missing. Extremities of boards rubbed. Head of backstrip chipped. The author's first book with a scarce, original dustjacket.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets To An Imaginary Madonna. Harold VInal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper labels on front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor chipping to corners of jacket. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. The author's first work in an original, scarce dustjacket.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards, pink printed labels mounted to upper cover and spine, grey dust jacket printed in pink, pink topstain; 47pp. Some light dustiness to jacket, jacket verso neatly reinforced with contemporary craft paper tape not visible to exterior, spine a bit toned, boards show some shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. The author's first book.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$93.50 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards, pink printed labels mounted to upper cover and spine, grey dust jacket printed in pink, pink topstain; 47pp. Some shelf wear, spine a bit toned, brief blue ink splatter to upper panel, else Very Good and sound. The author's first book.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. SONNETS TO AN IMAGINARY MADONNA. Harold Vinal: NY, 1927.
Price: US$97.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 x 5.5", boards with paper title label on front cover and spine, 47pp, extremities bumped and quite worn, pp toned, in a rubbed and darkened dustjacket with some chipping to spine ends. FIRST EDITION of author's first book.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards, pink printed labels mounted to upper cover and spine, grey dust jacket printed in pink, pink topstain; 47pp. Some shelf wear, spine lettering rather faded, else Very Good and sound. The author's first book.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
FISHER, VARDIS.. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. New York: Harold Vinal, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's first book. Signed presentation copy inscribed; 'To Col. Nathan N. Wallach. With warm regards, Vardis Fisher.' Near fine in a dust jacket with some splitting, small tears and a few tiny chips. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 47pp. Black papercovered boards with pink printed label on front board and spine. Owner's name on front flyleaf, paper-covered boards are moderately worn at top and bottom edges of spine and covers as usual, small chip at crown of spine, else a very good copy in good only lightly age-toned dust jacket with some loss of the spine, small nicks on spine ends and corners. Author's first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis.. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna.. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 47 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards with paper labels in dust jacket. First edition. Light rubbing to edges of boards, else very good in a bright fresh jacket with some very light use to the extremities of the spine. Author's first book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 47pp. Paper-covered boards with publisher's printed labels. Some rubbing and bumps at the extremities of the boards, else near fine in near fine dust jacket lightly toned on the spine and one small, faint stain and three tiny nicks. Author's first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna - SIGNED 1st. Harold Vinal, New York, NY, 1927.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UNION S-This smallish hardcover is SIGNED and inscribed with an original 6 line poem by the AUTHOR and is in GOOD+ condition with heavily worn edges/tips. 1st edition of the author's first book. 47pp. plain black spine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper title labels on the front board and backstrip. The edges of the covers are rubbed, and there are thin losses from the spine ends. The free endpapers are dampstained along the fore edges. Ex libris Ingle Barr, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with subtle darkening to the edges, and occasional small open edge tears. The author's first work in an original, scarce dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the noted book collector, Ingle Barr, by Vardis Fisher on the front free endpaper: "Dear Ingle Barr- / I am sorry you own / this. These sonnets are so / 'adolescent' / (?) every copy of them were / lost. They will never be / reprinted / Vardis Fisher."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.