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Price: US$7.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1958. First Edition. 284 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light rubbing and marking all over. Mild foxing to inside. Pen to front panel. Heavy sunning to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Afternoon Of An Author Stories And Essays. The Bodley Head., 1958.
Price: US$9.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1958. First Edition Thus. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Stamp to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Afternoon of an Author. London; Bodley Head, 1958,, 1958.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 284pp, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, gilt titles, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper spine faded
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With and introduction by Arthur Mizener. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped and edge worn. The boards are in good condition. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald. The Bodley Head, 1958.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
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Seller: The Small Library Company, London, United Kingdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Afternoon of an Author. The Bodley Head, United Kingdom, 1958.
Price: US$16.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Afternoon of an Author by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hardcover, First UK Edition (1958). Book in good condition, in a similar unclipped dust jacket. The book has bumping and fading to the spine, and ageing to the page edges. It has slight pen marks to the inside front cover, and a red stain to the bottom of the latter back pages. The dust jacket shows general wear and ageing, including internally, with some losses to the extremities, notably to the spine ends. A good copy overall for a book of this age. (See pictures). This is a selection of uncollected stories and essays, with an introduction and notes by Arthur Mizener.
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Price: US$18.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Fitzgerald. F. Scott. Afternoon of n Author. The Bodley Head, London, 1958.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Reddish boards. 1st British edition. 284pp. Previous owner's name stamp on front end-papers. Dust jacket soiled & worn with spine quite sunned. Not price-clipped.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Bodley Head, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Penguin Random House, 1958.
Price: US$20.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR Stories and Essays. Bodley Head, GB, 1958.
Price: US$25.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
F Scott Fitzgerald. Afternoon of an Author. Bodley Head, London, 1958.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + . 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. A Near Fine book in a Very Good + dustjacket with the 16s. price intact and the flaps uncreased. The spine is sunned and there are a few marks and small closed tears.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald Mizener (ed.), F. Scott. Afternoon of an Author. Bodley Head, 1958.
Price: US$36.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Selection of uncollected stories and and essays. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 284 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 33950. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
Price: US$38.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1966 edition. Light shelfwear, the book is clean and readable throughout, a decent, undamaged copy.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket sunned, rubbed, chipped and stained with some loss. Rear board heavily dampstained, owner details to front pastedown, however, content clean and tidy. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Bodley Head Volume One. Bodley Head, 1958.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 2nd Printing (1960). Not price-clipped (20s net price intact). Published by Bodley Head, 1958. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends and endpapers. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, spotting, and a few tears. Toning to spine. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 456 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 456pp.; HB red w/gilt; some rub w/spine&edges sunned; PON; clean, tight pgs. "The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and some shorter pieces" intro.by J.B. Priestley
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With an introduction by J.B. Priestley. Bound in publisher's original red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Toning to dust jacket at the edges and spine, as usual with this title. One very small chip to the head of dust jacket, otherwise fine. Bruccoli AA5.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 X 7 3/4 Inches. [456 PP] [456 PP]. First two volumes of the Bodley Head omnibus edition. Both volumes are the first printing of this edition. Original price of "20s" intact on front flap of both volumes. Contains The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon and more. A few spots to original red cloth binding. DJ's lightly worn at edges and folds with some light chipping to spine ends. A very attractive set overall. Volume one containing The Great Gatsby has become quite scarce.
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Bodley Head, 1958 & 1959., 1958 & 1959. Very good. - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Hardcovers consisting of two volumes uniformly bound in red cloth titled in gilt on the spines, in printed buff dust wrappers titled in red & black on the front panels and the spines. The dust jackets are soiled and slightly stained and the jackets' spines are darkened. There are short tears to the edges of the jackets and the heads & tails of the jackets' spines are chipped. 456 pages & 456 pages respectively. There is foxing to the endpapers and pastedowns of each volume with light soiling & minor foxing to the books' edges. Very good. First editions, first printings of volumes 1 & 2 of an eventual 6 volume set of the first collected edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works. The set was published from 1958 through 1963, with these first two volumes published in 1958 & 1959. In addition to an introduction by J.B. Priestley, volume one includes: "May Day", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Great Gatsby", "The Crack-Up", "Crazy Sunday", and "The Last Tycoon". Volume two includes: "Tender is the Night", the "Autobiographical Pieces": "My Lost City", "Echoes of the Jazz Age", "Ring", and "Early Success", the "Letters to Frances Scott Fitzgerald", and the "Short Stories": "The Last of the Belles", "Pat Hobby Himself", "An Alcoholic Case" and "Financing Finnegan".
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Scott F. Fitzgerald. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald Voume 1-4. The Bodley Head, London, 1958.
Price: US$340.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Four volumes: I and II are reprints. III and IV are 1st Printings. Previous owner's name on page one.
Seller: Fialta Books, St Albans, United Kingdom
Price: US$416.28 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impressions.Complete in 6 volumes. first collected edition of Fitzgerald's works, containing all the novels and a large selection of the essays and short stories. All books, VG+, slightly bumped, edges dusty otherwise clean and bright with no ink marks or writing. In Good dustwrappers showing overall wear, chipping to vols 1 and 2 some discolouration, more to volume 3. nevertheless still apleasing set of Tthe first and definitive collected works of Fitzgerald to be printed. 15074
Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: Six volumes, all first impressions. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to spines, neat early ownership inscriptions to the front free endpapers of volumes II and III, dust jackets. Occasional marking to the jacket spines, a little light edge wear, spotting to the endpapers and edges of one volume, a very good set overall. Volume I with an essay by J.B. Priestley; volumes V and VI (the short stories) are selected and introduced by Malcolm Cowley.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$1088.73 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the first collected edition of Fitzgerald's works, containing all the novels and a large selection of the essays and short stories. Volume I has an introduction by the prolific English writer and playwright J. B. Priestley. Volumes V and VI, containing the author's short stories, were edited with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989), American literary critic; these two volumes added 12 more stories to Cowley's previous The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951). Bruccoli AA5. 6 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With the dust jackets. Gift inscription on front free endpaper of vols. III-VI. Spine panels of jackets uniformly toned, light foxing or small stains to front panel and spine of four jackets, occasional nick to edges, but generally sharp: fine copies in very good jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1248.84 + shipping
Description: [Modern Literature Set] FIRST BODLEY HEAD EDITION. Complete in 6 volumes. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth in pale grey/cream dust-jackets printed in black and red. Some minor dustiness. Both the books and jackets are in clean, fresh condition without the often-seen toning to the spines. A striking set. The first and definitive collected works of Fitzgerald to be printed.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom