Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Sullivan, Frank. The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite. Boni & Liveright, 1926.
Price: US$10.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Sullivan, Frank. The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Description: Yellow cloth with red lettering. ix, 224 pp. No ills. Historical biography. VG, cover slightly soiled, minor foxing on endpapers
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of Sullivan's first book. Original yellow cloth, rectangular area on front cover darkened, top of spine very slightly worn, else very good to near fine. INSCRIBED humorously by Sullivan on the front free endpaper "To the . . . / in recognition of their services in making/ Camp Devens safe for/ democracy/ Frank Sullivan."
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Sullivan, Frank. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MARTHA HEPPLETHWAITE. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The author's first book. In addition to the continuing saga of Sullivan's fictitious secretary, it features Sullivan's first serious comic pieces on the loneliness and frustrations or urban life, a natural topic for the homesick, unmarried Sullivan (1892-1976), a peripheral member of the famous Algonquin Round Table. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with purple stamping. A near fine copy in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket with pronounced toning along the spine and folds.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
SULLIVAN, Frank. The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Boards faintly smudged, else fine in a very good, soiled dustwrapper with the spine tanned and an internally taped repair to the spine. First book by humorist and longtime *New Yorker* staffer. Dustwrapper designed by Milt Gross.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Sullivan, Frank. The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 224pp; yellow cloth. Sullivan's first book, with dust jacket art by Milt Gross. Sullivan was a fixture at the Algonquin round table and a longtime New Yorker contributor. Gift inscription, and decorative sticker affixed to flap over printed price; fine in a spine-faded dust jacket with some lightly edge wear, a wrinkle to the front, some minor chipping and marks.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
SULLIVAN, Frank. The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with some modest tanning to the spine, and a tear along the top edge of the front flap which has been folded and creased. First book by humorist and longtime *New Yorker* staffer. Dustwrapper designed by Milt Gross.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's first book. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips, stains and tears. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, 'To Martin Sampson who has cast many a pearl before Frank Sullivan.' Newspaper journalist and long-time New Yorker contributor, Sullivan was a prominent fixture of the Algonquin Round Table. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.