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Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Description: g+/g, rubbed dj. Novel; 16344
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
Price: US$7.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. Hardcover. Lightly scored copy in original cloth. Covers heavily sunned to spine and showing minor shelf wear. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a good copy. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Katherine Anne Porter. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company., New York, 1952.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: {Harcourt, Brace and Company.; New York; 1952; Cloth; Good/No Jacket; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Ex-Library; First Edition.} Heavy shelfwear, spine faded; front hinge loose, crash exposed between flyleaf and half title. Listing updated 10-1-2005.
Seller: Skelly Fine Books, Norman, OK, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$8.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: very good, no dj, gray-green cloth 273 pgs
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. The Days Before. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Price: US$8.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket condition: Good+. First edition. Several tears and chips to edges of jacket. The Days Before is a personal record. In this first collection of the non-fiction writing she has done over thirty years, Kathe-rine Anne Porter draws a remarkable self-portrait in terms of her public beliefs and private enthusiasms, her real life and the life of her imagination. Of the thirty-three pieces included, the earliest are the Mexican writings, dating from 1921. Articles such as "The Mexican Trinity," "The Charmed Life," and "Why I Write About Mexico" recreate Miss Porter's experience in that country and are a guide to the political and cultural landscape out of which stories like "Flowering Judas" grew. The Days Before also contains her most recent statements, such as "The Future Is Now," which sum up her point of view as a writer and a dedicated individual in an atomic age.
Seller: CorgiPack, Fulton, NY, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace and Company (1952) New York, 1952.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in lightly worn, lightly soiled dust jacket First Edition Cloth 3/4" and 1/4" tear top front jacket
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$9.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1952). 8vo. 273 pages. Cloth. Near fine, no owner's name. Dustjacket slightly worn and soiled, price clipped. Non-fiction, "a remarkable self-portrait in terms of her public beliefs and private enthusiasms, her real life and the life of her imagination" - dj blurb. Observations about Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, her own writing, Mexico, etc.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
Price: US$11.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. First Edition. 273 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Hinges are very lightly cracked but boards remain firmly attached. Binding otherwise remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft fraying and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1952). First Edition. 8vo. 273 pages. Original green cloth. Spine slightly fade, else near fine, owner's name on ffep. Dustjacket price intact, few small chips and slight fraying to edges. 33 essays on writers and writing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne.. THE DAYS BEFORE.. Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Price: US$16.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. Harcourt, Brace. Hard Cover. Book- Good, black titles on front board and spine, green boards, spine sunned. 8x5. 267pp. Private library stamp.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace, and Co, New York, 1952.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. A good plus copy in a good plus dustwrapper. There are a few tears on dustwrapper (1/2 inch or smaller), and shelf-rubbing, hinge is slightly loose. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace And Co, New York, 1952.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dustwrapper. Price clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. THE DAYS BEFORE. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 273 pages; The dust jacket has minor chipping, soiling and wear. Otherwise the book is well taken care of.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition. x+273p. Mark to front free endpaper. Paper toned. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth, faded to head of spine and boards. Unclipped dust jacket is worn with loss at all corners, head and tail of spine, and lower half of upper panel.
Seller: Leabeck Books, Steventon, OXON, United Kingdom
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Crown and foot a bit bumped, some offsetting to rear board, near fine lacking dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York, 1952.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine. Spine cloth faded, previous owner's name/date on front inside panel, cloth edges lightly faded. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine A. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace & Co., NY, 1952.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some chipping dust jacket at the top of spine and top of front panel of book. Overall, an acceptable copy of this, Ms. Porter's first book of non-fiction. By the noted author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider and The Ship of Fools.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace, 1952.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition stated in good, wrapped dust jacket. Jacket has minor overall scuffing and age toning with a few scratches/nicks and crumpled spine tips. Binding is good, internal pages are bright and crisp with no marks or notations. A little dust soiling on endpapers. HB HS
Seller: Ed's Editions LLC, ABAA, West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1952.
Price: US$25.02 + shipping
Description: 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). x, 273pp. With rubbed and chipped dust jacket.
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
PORTER, Katherine Anne. THE DAYS BEFORE. Harcourt, Brace, NY, 1952.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 273. A few marginal notes in pencil, o/w VG in little chipped and soiled dj. A memoir.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Owner name on the front fly, spine and edges of the boards faded, else near fine in near fine, spine tanned dustwrapper with some light soiling.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. THE DAYS BEFORE. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952. dj, 1952.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First printing. Her first collection of non-fiction writing containing 33 pieces written over more than 30 years. Some of the earliest, from the 20's, deal with her experiences in Mexico; others are essays on writers - including Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Thomas Hardy and others. VG+/VG- (some fading to the edges of the boards, pc, edgewear to both book & dj.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE. The Days Before. New York Harcourt, Brace 1952, 1952.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good slightly used copy with some fading to the outer edges and light edge wear with a bit of dampstaining to the cloth at the bottom of the spine in a lightly used dust jacket with a 1/4Ó piece missing at the top of the spine and a small dampstain to the bottom of the spine, coming around to the front and rear panels, and some overall slight darkening especially at the spine. A collection of non-fiction writing, including personal essays, literary criticism, and an essay on Willa Cather.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 273pp. Slight toning else near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a chip on the front panel, some creasing, and toning.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Her first collection of essays. An about near fine copy that has a faint musty smell, a small owner signature and offsetting to the front free endpaper in an about near fine dust jacket that has some very minor wear and a faint crease to the top of the front panel.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. Days Before. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [x], 273 pp. Inscribed. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, minor edgewear, else good copy. (95219g). Ex Libris American poet and teacher Lee F. Gerlach.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In Mylar.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne.. The Days Before.. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in pale grey-blue cloth (upper edges slightly faded), in a Fine white, black and red (unfaded) dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with minor rubbing to points. 273pp. Non-fiction. Q12339
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace and Co. New York, 1952.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover essays and memoirs by the renowned novelist, fine in near fine jacket (in fresh mylar); spine shows some minor browning and has tiny chips on the edges else a clean crisp copy in unclipped jacket; appears unread
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo. Rough-weave blue linen over boards (hardcover), titled in dark green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 273pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, free of notable flaws. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly worn, Very Good or better. A collection of personal and critical essays, none previously published in book form. WALDRIP & BAUER A11.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. x, 273 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green buckram. Minor edgewear, else Fine, in Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1952.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition in the original blue cloth with $4.00 price on the flap. A collection of Porter's essays, including the famous polemic on the writer in the Atomic Age and a brilliant analyses of Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. Book and jacket are fine and unmarked. protected by a Brodart plastic jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a tiny chip at the foot.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. x; 273. Bound in green cloth with darker green lettering stamped on front cover and spine. A bit of fading to extremities of cover; dust jacket with chips, and loss along the crease between the front panel and the front flap. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscribed by Porter to Edward Parone, theater director and a member of Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit. Parone's blindstamp is stamped on the FFEP, with his signature on the front pastedown.Parone worked with those playwrights, and mentored other future-luminaries including Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and Sam Shepard. In addition, Parone was a poet, and was published in "The New Yorker" and other prominent literary publications. Inscription reads: "For E. P. / P, Incomme (unintelligible) ! /With Good Wishes / Katherine Anne Porter / 17 December 1952 / New York". This collection of critical essays has them categorized in three sections: "Critical," "Personal and Particular" and "Mexican," the latter being Porter's writings on Mexico and Mexicans. Porter was born near San Antonio and as a child watched a street battle between Maderistas and Federal troops, from the window of a cathedral. As for lit-crit, Porter addresses the work of Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Willa Cather, Ezra Pound, Katherine Mansfield, For Madox Ford, Edith Sitwell, et al. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival protector.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. THE DAYS BEFORE. Harcourt, Brace and Company (1952), New York, 1952.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. A book of essays on the art of writing, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Hardy, Cather, Forster, as well as personal thoughts on life. A fine copy with only the barest fading on top edge, as usually seen; in fine dust jacket with only a touch of soiling.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before (Signed Copy). Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. A collection of non-fiction writings. This copy SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. A very good copy in green cloth binding in very good unclipped dustwrapper with some small tape marks to verso. Some light dampstaing near base of spine.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1952.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of first edition. Signed by the author on front endpage. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. There is a faint, approximately 1/4" x 1/8" dampstain affecting top edge of first 20 pages, front jacket flap and top of front board. A tight square copy. Text bright, corners sharp. DJ has a single chip at head of spine and one at foot of spine, plus a 1/8" tear at top of front panel. Original $4.00 price intact on front flap.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Days Before. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1952.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 273 pages; inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by the author to collector Burt Britton, additionally inscribed and initialed by the author on the half-title page; "First Edition" stated on copyright page; Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of texture and complexity of character delineation usually achieved only in the novel.(Merriam Literature); (From the dustjacket information): ".first collection of non-fiction writing she has done over thirty years.a remarkable self-portrait in terms of her public beliefs and private enthusiasms, her real life and the life of her imagination."; some dustjacket edge, tips wear and darkening, back panel with a small (1/4") hole at bottom edge; a couple of interior leaves a bit edge-worn, larger, probably a publisher's defect; overall, good condition.
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Bolivia, NC, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne.. The Days Before.. NY. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1952., 1952.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. And "Printed in the United States of America." Signed/Presentation copy by Katharine Anne Porter: Inscribed-- "To Lois Odell with best wishes. Katherine Anne Porter 14 November 1952 New York" in brown ink on the front endpaper. VG+/VG+ in finely woven blue-green cloth stamped in dark blue with light sunfading at the bottom and top edges of the boards. In an attractive white dust jacket featuring a pencil sketch of Katherine Anne Porter on the front panel. With the original price of $4.00 at the top of the inside front flap. Short tear at the top of the spine. First Edition. With stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. And "Printed in the United States of America."
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Original green cloth, near fine, with slight fading along edges, in fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. Exceptional presentation: "My sweet cousin Gertrude I wish my work might be as beautiful as you, and your life - All my love Katherine Anne Porter 26th September 1952 New York."
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing of the stated first edition. Signed presentation by Katerine Anne Porter directly on the front-free endpage: " "For Doris Grumback / Critic, and I mean a / real one, and a brave / one. Live Long! / Katherine Anne Porter/ 11 November 1975." Doris Grumbach is an American novelist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. Book with light tanning to spine and cover edge, light toning to endpapers, and cloth overlay at spine ends gently crimped; dust jacket with toning to spine, price clipped, short closed tear/crease to upper back cover, and mild shelf wear, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.