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Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tight, solid, ex-lib copy with normal marks, card pockets. Solid reading copy. BP/Writers on Writing/Fiction/W
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Thomas Wolfe. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fading/shelf wear to jacket, in mylar. General shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938. THE STORY OF A NOVEL. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 93 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is brown with black print. Dust jacket has tears to all edges with large portion of front panel torn away, toning to spine, peripheral toning, smudging/shelf wear. Price unclipped: "$1.50". Boards in brown cloth with gold print on black banner. Tear to spine head, peripheral toning, toning to front area where the dust jacket had been torn away. Text block has b&w photo (portrait) from news clipping pasted on to front flyleaf, tanning to endpapers. 1373528. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Very Good condition. Endpapers have the usual minor browning along the gutter (slight offset from binder's glue). Otherwise a bright, square, tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing with Scribner seal and "A" on the copyright page. Bound in the original salmon-color cloth with goldstamped lettering over black panels on the spine and front cover. Wolfe's memoir of writing his novels LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL (1929) and OF TIME AND THE RIVER (1935). Among other things, he describes his close working relationship with editor Maxwell Perkins. Only 3,000 copies of this First Edition were printed . See Carol Johnston's THOMAS WOLFE, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY A5.I.a1. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No Jacket. 8vo. viii, 93pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean hardback, with previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Also has a date written in ink top of ffep. Book is very slightly cocked also. U-6461 Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Seller: Rod's Books & Relics, sand springs, OK, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hard cover. A near fine copy with browning to the end papers. The stamp of a High School and a number. The jacket is very good with staining and fading to the spine. 93 pages and first seen in The Saturday Review. A book not only for readers of Wolfe but for all concerned with the processes of literary creation.
Seller: Gebhard and Burkhart Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers lightly soiled.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Thomas Wolfe. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons (New York), 1936.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HC/DJ - Pink cloth boards with black text blocks for titling to cover/spine. No external shelf wear. Previous owners name ffep. D-7.58[MH]. DJ, un-clipped $2.50. Light chipping (>1/16") to head of spine and one spot center of side edge. 16mo. 93pp. Collectible. --B.R. Box 132
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound. Good+. 12mo. No DJ. Some gutter browning. Covers a lightly faded. Not a first. Nice copy. Prev. owner's name front endpaper. 93 pages.
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 93p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. 7 3/4" X 5". 93pp. Unclipped dust jacket presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, and light creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine of jacket. Gentle rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of red cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Bookplate belonging to Harry C. Kelly to front paste-down. Occasional penciled underlining and notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here is the soul of an artist laid bare, with all his hopes, fears, doubts, and aspirations. But it is not only about Mr. Wolfe's own books--it is about all writing and about American writing especially--a book that every one directly interested in the art of fiction must read, and that every one of the many thousands who enjoyed Mr. Wolfe's novels will find permeated by the same "insatiable and enormous eagerness in life and living" that placed the stamp of genius on his novels.(Publisher).
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Thomas Wolfe. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in orange dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); [8],93pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel faded, endpapers toned, brief glue residue to front free endpaper from previously-removed label, else a Very Good, fresh and sound copy. The novelist's cris-de-coeur describing his experience revising his first novel "Look Homeward, Angel," under the tutelage/iron fist of the editor Maxwell Perkins.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 93p octavo A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Nicked at the crown, Name on inside front panel "Margaret R Roberts, New York City April 1936" laid in is a 3x5 card from a dealer in which he states April was the month of publication.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Thomas Wolfe. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing based on the print order letter "A" on copyright page. Book in Very Good condition. One noticeable bump to top edge of back cover but cover otherwise boards bright and clean. Tight, solid spine and tight, solid spine. Inside boards and end papers have some staining from tape on dust jacket (see dust jacket notes). Previous owner's blind stamp on dedication page. Previous book seller's price written in ball point ink to front end paper. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket in Good+ condition. Corners of dust jacket reinforced with cloth tape from interior of jacket (glue from tape has slightly darkened exterior of jacket, inside boards and end papers). No tears or chipping at edges handling wear and age toning to back cover. Dust jacket in protective mylar wrap. See photos.
Seller: Dusty Spine Rare Books, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of A Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [8], 93, [1] pages. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Some endpaper discoloration. The text of this book, with certain modifications, first appeared in a series of three articles in the Saturday Review of Literature in December, 1935. Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 - September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early 20th century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and the mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, sophisticated, and hyper-analytical perspective. After Wolfe's death, contemporary author William Faulkner said that Wolfe may have been the greatest talent of their generation for aiming higher than any other writer. Wolfe's influence extends to the writings of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, and of authors Ray Bradbury and Philip Roth, among others. He remains an important writer in modern American literature, as one of the first masters of autobiographical fiction, and is considered North Carolina's most famous writer. Southerner and Harvard historian David Herbert Donald's biography of Wolfe, Look Homeward, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1988. Derived from a brief Kirkus review: Strange the impression left after reading this little book on how he came to write Of Time and the River is virtually that of "briefing" his own book. It is more than an expanded essay on manner and method and theory -- it epitomizes the conception and the birth pangs of the book itself -- and it reflects the content of the writer's "struggle in his youth." the Story of a Novel has been accepted as a most important contribution to the writings of Thomas Wolfe, a book not only for readers of Wolfe, but for all concerned with processes of literary creation. First Edition, First Printing [Scribner's "A" present on verso].
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribners's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$100.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight discoloration to the edges. Jacket is slightly soiled, and spine is lightly faded
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. THE STORY OF A NOVEL. Charles Scribner & Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in a very good slightly age-darkened dw.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
WOLFE, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Original pale red cloth, titled in gilt on black panels on front and spine, in original orange jacket; plain endpapers; [viii], 93pp; ads to rear and rear flap of jacket. Tight and square, with slight discoloration to endpapers: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $1.50); spine sunned, rear cover dusty near along spine, edges gently rubbed, upper edge lightly browned: Very Good. JOHNSTON A5.1.a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. THE STORY OF A NOVEL. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small Octavo. 93pp. Bound in salmon cloth, lettering to spine and front cover gilt over black, some off-setting to endpapers, previous owner's name otherwise near fine in unclipped dust jacket browned along the spine and edges of rear panel, minor light chipping to head of jacket. A very nice clean copy.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1936.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing (Scribner's "A" on copyright page). Publisher's full salmon cloth, gilt lettering on black panels on spine and cover. "Strange the impression left after reading this little book on how he came to write Of Time and the River is virtually that of "briefing" his own book. It is more than an expanded essay on manner and method and theory -- it epitomizes the conception and the birth pangs of the book itself -- and it reflects the content of the writer's "struggle in his youth." the Story of a Novel has been accepted as a most important contribution to the writings of Thomas Wolfe, a book not only for readers of Wolfe, but for all concerned with processes of literary creation." - Kirkus. Slight offsetting on endpapers, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped ($1.50) dust jacket, now in Mylar, is sunned along the spine with slight wear at the head and heel, and lightly chipped along the top edge, else near fine. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (viii), 93 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Wolfe, Thomas. The Story of a Novel. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover light edge ware spine sunned. Scribner "A"
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.