Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.80 + 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.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings. Delacorte Press, New York, 1970.
Price: US$12.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, 496 pp. Light wear to head and heel of spine, corners of boards lightly bumped, page edges slightly tanned. Jacket sunned, rubbed, handled and edgeworn, with small scuff at heel, piece missing at crown, a few small chips and tears.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Essays, and Occasional Writings. Delacorte Press, 1970.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: Book Very Fine, square, tight, clean. NO notes or ANY markings. DJ with 2 large chips along bottom edge else OK, bright and NOT rubbed, not clipped ($12.50) ; 496 pages
Seller: Enterprise Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First printing, stated. Price has been clipped.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 496 pages; Jacket with some rubbing and light wear. Book otherwise well taken care of.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The top corner of the front board has a light bump, previous owners bookplate front free page, 496 pages. The dust jacket is price clipped and has two chips to one cm.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. fine-.v.g. d.j. frayed. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Essays. Delacorte Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1970.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing of this large volume of collected essays. Book is Fine but for previous owner name in ink under front flap fold. Jacket has traces of rubbing and light wear to edges, crinkling at spine ends. Not Price clipped.
Seller: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Thus. Not price-clipped ($12.50 price intact). Published by Delacorte Press, 1970. Octavo. Red cloth over black boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Very light spotting to top page ends. Magazine article about author laid in. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edgewear, nicks and tear to front top left corner. 496 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.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Essays. Delacorte Press, 1970.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, stated second printing. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, DJ unclipped but has a slight tear at the top of the front cover; still in excellent condition, no indications of previous ownership.
Seller: FSS Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VI, 496 Seiten / pages Leinenband mit Goldtitelprägung & Schutzumschlag; derselbe gebrauchsspurig; Deckel etwas berieben und leicht gelockert sonst gutes Exemplar - linen copy with dust-jacket; the same worn; book itself with traces of use on cover , texts inside very good condition Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1
Seller: ACADEMIA Antiquariat an der Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with light wear at edges. 8vo. 496 pp. In protective Mylar. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U. S.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very Good first edition. Stated: First printing: 1970. Near Fine hardback with incidental bump to lower front board tip, else Fine. Very Good dust jacket with about a two-inch closed tear at the top left corner of the front DJ panel with some lateral creasing, some edgewear. DJ price is intact. 496 pages, unmarked. ; P Fic; 496 pages
Seller: marvin granlund, emeryville, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front endpapers a bit tanned from laid-in newspaper article and with former owner's stamp ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 496 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Stated First Printing. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. A few faint speckles of foxing to top fore-edges and light page-edge soiling to bottom fore-edges. Dust jacket is unclipped ($12.50) with shelf-wear, scrapes, rubbing and faint crackling to spine head (see photos). 496 pages. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems.
Seller: Armadillo Alley Books, Carrollton, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original red cloth spine over black boards with author signature in gilt on the front, and $12.50 on flap. Three tiny edge nicks to rear edge of jacket, otherwise a fine copy in a Brodart cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.31 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Seventy-five plus pieces, subjects include: Willa Cather, Christopher Sykes, E.M.Forster, Sylvia Beach, Communism in Hollywood, Flannery O'Connor, Ford Madox Ford; the pull of Mexico (ten pieces), on writing (six), and eight poems; 496pp. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some creases at edges.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Description: Book has modest wear thus nearly very good plus. Dj has edgewear. Signed by the author on the dedication page.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. 496-page collection of Porter's criticism, essays, profiles, articles, and poems. Fine in near fine dustjacket with two short edge tears and a bit of rubbing and spine heel and folds.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1970 Delacorte hard cover stated first printing first edition - some wear to dust jacket - some staining to cover - owner's name inside cover - otherwise binding like new contents clean - a fine collectible - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1970 Delecorter Press hard cover stated First Printing - slight staining to cover and page edge - very slight wear to edge of dust jacket - otherwise dust jacket fine binding like new contents clean - this is a very nice collectible - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Seymour Lawrence Book. First printing, 1970 stated. Some wear along the DJ edges with multiple small open/close tears. Some rubbing wear with light scratches to DJ covers. Binding is not tight. Large close tear to DJ at top of back cover. Minor wear along the edges of the book itself. THIS IS A HEAVY AND OVERSIZE BOOK. INTERNATIONAL AND PRIORITY ORDERS MIGHT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES.
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 496pp, octavo, A very good copy in chipped dust jacket. Signed and dated by Porter, bookplate
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1970 Delecorte Press hard cover - stated first printing first edition - some wear to cust jacket (now in mylar cover) - otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean - a fine solid tight coolectible - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited signed edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 406pp. Limited edition #215 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY PORTER. Printed paper over boards with leather spine in slipcase. Slipcase has light wear.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 57 of 250 limited edition, signed by Porter. Green morocco leather spine with gilt lettering, green/brown marbled boards, gilt top edge. Small (1/2") shadow on slipcase back where tape or label had been.
Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition signed by the author on the dedication page. Very minor wear in like DJ. ; Signed by Author
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. THE COLLECTED ESSAYS AND OCCASIO. Delacorte Press, 1970.
Price: US$102.82 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.57
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, of which this is number 21. Signed by the author. Quarter bound in green leather with gilded title on the spine. In the original slipcase. Slipcase has some light shelf wear. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.
Seller: The Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$147.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 496 pages. First edition, first printing. One (231) of 250 copies signed by the author. Green Morocco backed marbled boards with a gilt-stamped spine. As new book in a like slipcase. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of only 250 copies signed by Porter. Lovely 1/4 leather in slipcase with gilt stamped leather label.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited, signed issue, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Katherine Anne Porter (on the dedication page, as issued). pp. xiv, 496. 8vo. A fine copy in publisher's paper-covered slipcase box, with gilt stamped leather cover label; the slipcase box is lightly rubbed, else near fine First edition, limited, signed issue, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Katherine Anne Porter (on the dedication page, as issued).
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. THE COLLECTED ESSAYS AND OCCASIONAL WRITINGS. Delacorte Press, 1970, 1970.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: A fine and tight SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #46/250 COPIES/SLIPCASED.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Quarter green leather gilt and marbled paper over boards. Fine in fine original slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by Porter.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES SIGNED BY PORTER. xi, 496p. Bound with gilt-titled green leather spine over marbled boards, t.e.g. First edition. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES SIGNED BY PORTER.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Signed 1/250 copies. #198. Winner of Pulitzer Prize. Fine copy in like Box. Beautiful Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Fine in fine dust jacket. Interestingly, this copy has been generically Inscribed by the author: "To the One who chooses this book, I wish you well - Katherine Anne Porter. 5 April 1972." There was also a limited and signed issue of the book, but we rarely see the trade issue signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected proof. Plastic spiral-bound printed pale green wrappers. Some modest offsetting on the front wrap, a very good or better copy. A somewhat ungainly format, presumably produced in very small numbers.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.