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Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat And Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1898.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book Shows Shelf Wear To The Spine. Binding Marginally Loose Yet Still Fully Intact. Some Foxing To Pages And Markings To The Cover. Otherwise Book Is In Good Condition For Its Age.
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat; And Other Stories. William Heinemann, London, 1898.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small octavo, 301pp, [2pp ads], 32pp publisher's ads dated March 1898. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Contains nine additional stories from the first American edition in Part II: Midnight Sketches. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, wear to corners and spine. Front and rear endpapers cracked, but binding sound. A very good example. (Williams & Starrett 16). Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was a young American writer known for The Red Badge of Courage, along with various other poems and short stories. The Open Boat is one of Crane's most popular short stories, one which H.G. Wells called "beyond all question, the crown of all [Crane's] work."
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Crane, Stephen. THE OPEN BOAT AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE .. William Heinemann, New York, 1898.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-301 [302: printer's imprint] [303-304: ads], publisher's blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, all edges trimmed. First British edition, greatly enlarged, later binding. Crane's best collection of short fiction, including several of his most powerful and best known stories. "The Open Boat," one of Crane's finest short stories, "was based upon his own experiences on his way to Cuba as a correspondent during the filibustering expeditions preceding the Cuban War. The emotions and reactions of four men in an open boat after a wreck are given with an insight and a fidelity to fact that makes the story memorable." - Quinn, American Fiction, p. 536. The collection also contains several tales based on Crane's western trip in 1895 to Mexico via Nebraska, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, including his archetypal "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," in which the mythical Old West yields to the reality of civilization. The fine "Death and the Child," a war story set during the Turko-Greek War in 1897, is "clearly a version of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, which it resembles in the incident of panicky flight, in its implication of nature in a drama of self discovery, and in its imagery of the psychological distress that motivates the hero. But it is also like 'The Open Boat' in that its protagonist is in a measure -- up to the moment of panic -- introspective and contemplative." - James B. Colvert, "Stephen Crane," DLB 12 (1982), p. 122. This Heinemann edition (probably simultaneous with the U.S. edition) adds nine stories, collectively called "Midnight Sketches," to the eight published in the 1898 Doubleday & McClure edition. BAL 4080. Starrett 16. Cloth lightly rubbed, lower corner tips bruised, foxing to text leaves early and late (as is often the case), a very good copy. A scarce and important edition of this seminal collection of American short fiction. (#170685)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
CRANE, Stephen. THE OPEN BOAT; and other stories. Heinemann, London, 1898.
Price: US$448.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 301 + 32pp of adv. Little toned green cloth, a very good tight copy. BAL 4080, Starrett & Williams 16. Includes 9 stories, "Midnight Sketches" that were not in the New York edition.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat. Heinemann, London, 1898.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition of this collection of 17 stories. Publisher's primary binding of light tan buckram with lettering in black and orange and illustration (by William Nicholson) to front and rear covers. Edges uncut. 301pp text followed by 2pp ads for Crane's works and 32pp undated publisher's catalogue. Very slight water-staining at foot of spine and light page-edge foxing but the book is clean, bright and tight. Most uncommon in such nice condition.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom