Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Bookplate; some foxing; nearly fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: HENRY BELLAMANN'S COPY. First edition (not stated but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 35 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 13.5cm. No dust jacket. Tan paper boards well soiled with corners worn and lightly bumped; several surface nicks along spine/joints with ends bumped and worn too; strong darkening along boards' top slender edges; front board decorated with dark blue title and author lettering plus an abstract crane vignette in olive green (latter is repeated in black upon title page). Fibrous paper endsheets. Strong foxing to text block's top edge; several small brown stains to fore-edge with some leaves shallowly affected at margins; interior leaves have some toning and light stains/soiling as well. No color plates present and no gaps or stubs present indicating they were ever included. Binding is firm. Personal copy of KINGS ROW novelist Henry Bellamann with his ink signature ("H. Bellamann") at top of front board plus his three-line brown wax pencil inscription at top of front free endpaper: "Heinrich Bellamann | Columbia, S.C. | 1915." The location and date of Bellamann's inscription are contemporary to his employment at South Carolina's Chicora College where he taught from 1907 to 1924 with the school being moved from Greenville to Columbia during the summer of 1915. Although best known for his 1940 novel KINGS ROW and other literary endeavors including poetry, Bellamann enjoyed administrative and/or teaching positions at Julliard, Curtis Institute of Music, and Vassar College with his papers and those of his wife Katherine Jones Bellamann held by the University of Mississippi J.D. Williams Library Special Collections. This book was obtained from a collection of Bellamann material inherited by a family descendant.
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD. JAPANESE PRINT. , 1912.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. THE JAPANESE PRINT. An Interpretation. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour Company, 1912. First edition (trade). 8vo, tan paper-covered boards, stamped in blue and green. 8vo, 35pp. Slight edgewear and a bit of cover soiling. Overall, this is a tight, very good copy of a scarce item.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Japanese Print. The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co, Chicago, 1912.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original tan paper-covered boards. Near Fine with light toning to spine, trivial rubbing to extremities, light soiling and several tiny spots, but on the whole a very nice example of this fragile book.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$5850.00 + shipping
Description: Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane device stamped in olive green. Fibrous Japanese paper endsheets. Neatly rebacked in tan paper board. Boards slightly smudged and lightly edgeworn, attractive period bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a good copy, in oversize folding clamshell box. First published printing of the first edition, preceded by another printing which Wright disliked and destroyed (but for an alleged 'few'). This is one of the copies printed Japan vellum, of which, depending on the reference, there were either thirty-five or fifty copies. Inscribed by Wright in 1915 at the lower edge of the first blank, and signed with initials. This was Wright's first book for which he was the sole author of the text, and is the most substantive of his publications devoted to his pioneering passion for this subject. SWEENEY 109.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.