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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 72 pages. A collection of essays by Wilson on James M. Cain, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, Hans Otto Storm, John Steinbeck, and another two essays. A very good copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some of the pages partially unopened and with some minor wear to the paper spine label and some other light wear. No dust jacket. Internally a clean copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition. One of 1500 copies. Very Good in dark greenish grey buckram, spine label, over pale green paper covered boards, lacking the dustwrapper. Light wear to board points. 72pp. Most of the pages are uncut. Critical essays on James M. Cain, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hans Otto Storm. Q16843
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of 1500 copies. Stain to lower corner of front board, no evidence of stain inside. Dust wrapper with several very small chips, 1.5" deep chip off top rear panel.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 72 Pp. One Of 1500 Copies. Black Cloth Spine, Paper Label Printed In Black, In Grey And White Decorated Boards With A Black And White Colt Press Illustration/Log. With The One Page Prospectus/ Broadside For This Book With Illustration Six Men At Back Room Table Of A Bar, And An Attached Small Order Blank For This Book Printed In Red. Also With A Contemporary Newspaper Review. Very Good, Wear With Fading And Slight Fraying At Edges. Dust Jacket Worn, Brown, Spine Mostly Perished, Front Flap Detached From Front Panel, Chips At Edges.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
WILSON, EDMUND.. The Boys in the Back Room. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; trade issue; one of 1500 copies. Very good in a chipped dust jacket. The postscript notes the recent deaths of Fitzgerald and West. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. The Boys in the Backroom: Notes on California Novelists. The Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo. Light green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine & paper spine label. 72pp. Limited printing of 1,500. Some staining to covers and fading of spine. Lovely little book. (CK)
Seller: The Last Book Store, Tyler, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$74.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9.5 x 6.5", cloth backed pict boards, 72pp, extremities lightly bumped, worn and sunned else a pretty nice used copy with old "Hudson's Book Shop" label inside rear cover, in a darkened, edge-chipped, spine-browned, soiled and splash-stained (not as bad as it sounds) dustjacket. One of 1500 copies, May 1941. James M. Cain, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, Hans Otto Storm, John Steinbeck, etc.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. The Boys in the Back Room. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth-backed patterned boards, spine label. One of 1500 copies. Hint of toning/rubbing to board edges, slight corner wear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned, slighlty insected/edgeworn/soiled. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 72 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 72 pp. Large 8vo, publisher's buckram-backed decorated paper boards in dust jacket. One of 1500 copies. Corners very slightly bumped; edges of boards slightly sunned; jacket hand-soiled and tanned at the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Edmund Wilson. The Boys In the Back Room. The Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy in A Very Good Plus Jacket1/1500 Copies Excellent Fresh Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. The Boys in the Back Room. Colt Press, E-014, 1941.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. The Colt Press, San Francisco, CA. 1941. 72 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (faded along the spine). Bound in decorated green cloth boards with paper titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Edmind Wilson's trenchant comments on the works of James M. Cain, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, Hans Otto Storm, William Saroyan, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, at a time when most of them were emerging greats, with their talents firmly established but their places in the pantheon not yet certain. E-014; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. The Boys in the Back Room. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Light green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine & paper spine label. 72pp. 1,500 copies. Covers edge-worn. Dust jacket is sun darkened on spine & top edge. Bit edge-worn & lightly chipped.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips, soiled, age toned. Limited to 1,500 copies.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. The boys in the back room.. The Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 100 numbered copies.Specially bound in original beige linen with paper labels. Printed on special paper signed by Wilson. This copy is number 27. Hint of tanning on edges of binding. This copy is in fine condition, very clean and straight. However there is a very tiny corner piece of the spine label missing.
Seller: RWL GROUP (Booksellers), Desert Hot Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 100 copies, signed by the author. Natural linen with paper title label and small illustrated paper cover label. Very Good+ -- some natural darkening and a tiny nick to one of the paper boards, otherwise completely free of markings. Issued without jacket.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund.. THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM.. COLT PRESS., SAN FRANCISCO, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Trade Issue. Limited to 1500 copies. Near fine in black quarter cloth with pale green decorated boards, lacking the dj. (Cloth at spine mildly discolored) Essays on Steinbeck, Saroyan, Cain & O'Hara. Sharp copy.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo. 72, [2] pp. Quarter-blk cloth over gray patterned boards, printed paper spine labl, w/ d.j. (1 vry sml chp to ft of spine), NF/VG copy, from the library of Herbert Gray Hills, Piedmont, California. First edition, 1 of 1500 copies printed, of this insightful series of literary essays on James Cain, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, and Hans Otto Storm.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. 1 of 1500. Featuring James M. Cain; John O'Hara; John Steinbeck; William Saroyan; and Hans Otto Storm. 72pp., a Fine copy in a toned but Near Fine DJ
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
WILSON, Edmund. BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM. SF, COLT PRESS, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: STEINBECK REFERENCES FIRST TRADE EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue, limited to 1500 copies. Octavo. 72pp. Quarter cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards. A fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket with foxing on the front panel. Essays by Wilson on Steinbeck, Saroyan, O'Hara, Cain et al.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade edition, Limited to 1500 copies. Tall 8vo. 72p. Black cloth spine over pattern paper boards, paper spine label. Wilson discusses Cain, O'Hara, Steinbeck, Storm, Saroyan, and Fitzgerald. Some shelfwear to lower edge, but about fine in VG d.j. First Trade edition, Limited to 1500 copies.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund.. The Boys in the Back Room. Notes on California Novelists.. Colt Press, 1941.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. One of 1500 copies. Fine in black buckram over pale green patterned paper covered boards, in a Near Fine dustwrapper, very slightly dulled, with one short closed tear top front flapfold. 72pp. Critical essays on James M. Cain, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hans Otto Storm. Q13951
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Boys in the Back Room, The. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, limited to 100 copies printed on special paper and signed by the author May 1941. This is copy number 35. Near Fine, with corners bumped, with no dust jacket, as issued.
Seller: Books As Issued, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: San Francisco: The Colt Press. 1941. Limited edition of one of 100 copies signed by Edmund Wilson on the limitation page. 72 pages. Includes short essays on Cain, O'Hara, Saroyan, Hans Otto Storm, Steinbeck, general essay "Facing the Pacific" on California writing. Gray linen cloth with Colt Press illustration on cover. Tall octavo. Bookplate, otherwise near fine copy. No dust jacket as issued.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 100 copies signed by Wilson, printed on special paper, and specially bound. Original beige linen with paper labels (covers slightly spotted as usual), two leaves roughly opened with small tears on the fore-edge, otherwise a nice copy, partially unopened. On James M. Cain, William Saroyan, John O'Hara.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 9.5 x 6.25", cloth backed pict boards, 72pp, covers well worn, soiled, abraded, spine sunned and torn at bottom, spine label chipped, corners bumped and chipped, couple of small pin spots on front endpapers; one of 1500 copies. SWAF. INSCRIBED "Dear Peggy: this is by no means the most remarkable of my books, but it is the best turned-out typographically." AND SIGNED "Love from EW" BY THE AUTHOR, who adds the date "June 17, 1941"
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 copies, printed on special paper, signed by Edmund Wilson. 72, [2]pp. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY EDMUND WILSON. A collection of essays by Wilson, on John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, John O'Hara et al. Ramsey p. 19 Cloth spine is lightly rubbed, lower fore-corners a bit bumped (with light wear to paper covering), else a near fine copy in dust jacket; jacket spine is tanned and nicked, with light wear at tips of corners, else quite bright First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 copies, printed on special paper, signed by Edmund Wilson.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Edmud Wilson. The Boys in The Back Room. The Colt Press:San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition 1/100 Copies Signed By Wilson on Special Paper #40 Very Scarce Ink Inscription Beautiful Fresh Copy of California Writers.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Natural linen with paper title label and small illustrated paper cover label. Warmly inscribed by Jane Grabhorn, founder of the Colt Press. The slightest of browning to edges, overall fine in custom mylar cover. First edition, one of 100 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 100 specially bound deluxe copies signed by the author, Edmund Wilson. Fine clean copy, scarce in this condition. WilsonÕs landmark studies of John Steinbeck, James M. Cain, John OÕHara, William Saroyan, and Hans Otto Storm.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.