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John Gardner, Lennis Dunlap. The Forms Of Fiction.. Random House, 1962.
Price: US$34.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
John Gardner, Lennis Dunlap. The forms of fiction.. Random House January 1962, 1962.
Price: US$40.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: used hardcover without dust jacket. binding remains solid, no marks to text, boards mildly edgeworn and mildly soiled, page edges mildly scuffed and mildly dirty. previous owners name inside
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John; Dunlap, Lennis. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, 1962.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very nice copy of this scarce first work from Gardner. Stated first printing. Owner's name in pencil on ffep, some light foxing/staining to bottom and top edges of page block, pushing to spine ends, and mild sunning to spine.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
GARDNER, JOHN. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, New York, 1962.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Author's first book. Faint price-sticker shadow on upper right corner of boards. VG.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John and Lennis Dunlap. THE FORMS OF FICTION. Random House, New York, 1962.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large Octavo. John Gardner's first book. A very good+ copy bound in yellow paper covered boards. Minimal cover edge wear, spotting top edge. No dust jacket as issued. x, 657 pp.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, New York, 1962.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. x, 657pp. Yellow papercovered boards. Lightly sunned spine, small soil mark and tiny price sticker on cover, near fine, without a dust jacket as issued. Author's first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GARDNER, JOHN and DUNLAP, LENNIS. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, New York, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Gardner's scarce first book, written as a textbook for English students while Gardner taught at Chico State College, with an anthology of sketches, fables, short stories and novellas. Near fine, with tiny scrape to front panel, without dustjacket, possibly as issued. Later printings came with printed dustjackets but controversy remains as to whether the first printing was issued in a glassine dustjacket, a printed dustjacket, or none at all.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Gardner, John and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, 1962.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing. VG+, no DJ.
Seller: Tony Lamy Bookseller, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Gardner, John and Dunlap, Lennis.. The Forms of Fiction.. NY, Random House, 1962, 1962.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, 1962.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: 657 pages. John Garner's first book, a textbook for English students consisting of an introductory essay on forms of fictional narratives, followed by an anthology of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, et al. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. There is debate about whether this book, intended as a text book, was ever issued in a dust jacket for the first edition. In any case, this copy is very good, with some spotting to the spine, in a very good dust jacket, with light tanning to the spine and some light staining to the price-clipped dust jacket. Whether this dust jacket is original to the book, or married from a later printing, is beyond the skill of this cataloguer. Dust jackets for this book, on any printing, are vanishingly scarce. [JSP01].
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, New York, 1962.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Printed papercovered boards. Corners rubbed, a near fine copy without dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by co-author John Gardner: "For Janet Turner - for reading on winter nights when no owls are out - John." Gardner's first book, a textbook. The fragile papercovered boards tend to be well-worn when encountered.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, New York, 1962.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Ownership signature of novelist Jerre Mangione, corners rubbed, a very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with small nicks and tears, and a bit of soiling. The author's first book, a college textbook. The only copy we've seen in a printed jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.