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Warren, Robert Penn. The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1947.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOT an ex library book. Book with black cloth binding. 276 clean pages.
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.95 + shipping
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. Very Good+ condition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp. Printed dedication is to Katherine Anne Porter. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page. Huff p.15. Grimshaw A9.a1. From the publisher: "This collection of Robert Penn Warren's best short fiction contains two novellas and twelve stories, encompassing a variety of themes. The title piece chronicles the history of a Southern town and the life of one of its eccentric citizens. THE UNVEXED ISLES and THE LIFE AND WORK OF PROFESSOR ROY MILLEN are ironic portrayals of academic life. A number of other stories have rural settings: PRIME LEAF, a story of violence among tobacco farmers; HER OWN PEOPLE, which sketches the plight of an itinerant black girl; and BLACKBERRY WINTER, a reminiscence of a boyhood encounter with evil that Paul Engle calls 'one of the supreme stories of American literature.'". First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Publisher's black cloth/No dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 276pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light wear and chipping to price clipped DJ and with bigger loss to front DJ ; Short stories and one novella from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of All the King's Men; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. The Circus in the Attic. Harcourt Brace and Co (1947), New York, 1947.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 276p octavo. A very good copy in a very bright price clipped dust jacket , 2 very light paperclip ghosts on the front & rear fly leaf as jacket was enclosed in an old fashioned glassine cover for years. $3.00 syamped on front fly leaf which I have noticed on this title.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
robert penn warren. the circus in the attic. harcourt brace and company, 1947.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: dj: above avg in mylar minus 1) shallow chip t edge c over 1/2" wide x 1/8" deep, 2) 2nd chip b edge f cover 1/2" wide x 1/8" deep. book: fine minus v slight bump to u point f cover
Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 276 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth. First edition. Inscribed by Robert Penn Warren on the front free endpaper; gift inscription on the same page; a few leaves nearly detached; light use to cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WARREN, Robert Penn. The Circus in the Attic. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1947.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, black cloth, d.w. (chipped at edges). New York: Harcourt Brace, (1947). First Edition. His second book. Small ownership signature on flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Pages edges modestly soiled, else fine lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. The Circus in the Attic. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1947.
Price: US$78.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Author's second book. Stated first printing in the original red, white and green Arens-designed jacket with a capital C enclosing two circus performers in the form of puppets. Unmarked and unclipped (publisher had corners of endpapers cropped as usual with wartime titles). Small 1/4" chip at the bottom of the jacket spine, and a couple of nicks to the top edge of the same; otherwise graded Very Good+ in a Mylar jacket cover. A very attractive, solid copy.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a good price-clipped dustwrapper with a large tidemark along the rear panel and flap fold.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Short stories and a novella, the first work of fiction published by Warren after the Pulitzer prize-winning ALL THE KING'S MEN. Includes the much-anthologized story "Blackberry Winter." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Alexander [?]/with all good wishes,/Robert Penn Warren/February 17, 1987." Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in a price clipped dustwrapper which has the flaps glued to the inside of the covers, otherwise very good. Signed by the author on the front endpaper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a very lightly foxed, very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with an insignificant sliver of loss at the crown. Scarce in nice condition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn.. THE CIRCUS IN THE ATTIC.. HARCOURT, BRACE. NY 1947, 1947.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a borderline Vg.+ to Nf. dj. (Couple clear tape mends on interior of dj. Tiny chip at crest of spine on dj. 1"- inch tear at base of front cover. A few short edge tears on rear panel) An above average copy of this elusive collection of stories.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. The Circus in the Attic. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1947.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 276 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Arens. Fourteen short stories. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of soiling to the spine. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. The Circus in the Attic. Harcourt and Brace, 1947.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Harcourt Brace in 1947. One of the author's more difficult titles to acquire in respectable condition. This is a near fine copy in a near fine ( spine faded ) dust jacket. Laid in to this copy is a (somewhat churlish ) folded greeting card bearing the signature of Robert Penn Warren. He apparently reconsidered this gesture, and crossed out his own signature. He subsequently appended the card with a note saying ' I don't send extras for swapping. ' The greeting card is in a plain envelope. One might assume that the card is a somewhat unique RPW item.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. The Circus In The Attic And Other Stories. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1947.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 276 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Arens. Inscribed by Warren in 1951 on the first sheet. Fourteen short stories. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the front cover and a 1/4" invisible closed tear to the top of the front cover. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.