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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust Jacket. Very Good. Wear along top and bottom edges. Small losses at head and tail of spine. Price unclipped. In protective Mylar wraps. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included).
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Resurrection. New American Library, New York, 1966.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-Libris from the Pine Hills Library ( Albany ) with pocket to rear and stamp of Library to top edge and paste down. The first printing ( stated ) published by the New American Library in 1966. Bound in publisher's brown boards with black cloth spine. A good copy of the book with wear to the edges and library indicia, as noted. Dust jacket very good, displaying faint damp stain to lower half and a one quarter inch tear to top edge. Gardner's first novel.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
John Gardner. The Resurrection. The New American Library, New York, 1966.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The New American Library, 1966. Stated First Printing. Octavo; [x], 241pp. Printed dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; book in brown faux-grain boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket a bit edgeworn with a light dampstain over tail of spine. Front and back boards show tape abrasions where jacket was previously attached, with light matching marks of tape toning to free endpapers but no hints on jacket. Small waterspot at bottom corner of half title, not affecting adjacent pages. Sparse toned spotting, mostly in margins, with a few dog-eared pages throughout. Back free endpaper stiff from water exposure, with only peripheral discoloration and some toning and dampstaining along fore-edge of preceding page. Abrasive quality could suggest removal of a plate or pocket, but there are no other institutional marks to corroborate this. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's first novel, printed in a run of 2500 copies. [Howell A.IV-1a].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Resurrection. New American Library, New York, 1966.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first printing of Gardner's somewhat scarce first novel. Very good with some wear to corners of boards, as well as head and heel of spine. Rear hinge starting to split. Jacket very good with light foxing to a few spots on the front panel and spine, and some small stains to the back panel. Jacket also shows minor edge wear near spine ends. Overall a very presentable copy of this book which can be tricky to locate at a 2500 first print run.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Resurrection. New American Library, 1966.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good first edition (First Printing stated on the copyright page) in a good dust jacket. Ex-library with usual library markings, including on the dust jacket.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. THE RESURRECTION. The New American Library, (New York), 1966.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First printing, in which a dying philosopher travels from San Francisco to Batavia, New York (Gardner's own hometown) for his last days, to do as much thinking as possible before terminal illness, childhood memories, and Upstate gloom join forces to drag him to his end. Gardner's first novel, with an approach and a set of preoccupations that would recur throughout Gardner's writing career. As the author would say some years later: "I'm not sure that being a philosophical novelist is better than being some other kind, but I guess that there's not much doubt that, in a way at least, that's what I am. A writer's material is what he cares about, and I like philosophy the way some people like politics, or football games, or unidentified flying objects." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original half black cloth with brown paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket, designed by Ken Braren. Tan endpapers. [10], 244 pages. Mild wear to boards at extremities. Tiny chipping to spine ends, faint soil and creasing to jacket panels. Tape reinforcement to jacket verso at heel of spine. Occasional foxing to pages. Very good plus in very good jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Resurrection A Novel. New American Library, 1966.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A nice copy of the author's first novel. First edition hardcover. Very good copy in very good jacket, complete with $4.95 price (light wear). A clean copy with no marks, stamps, or names.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Resurrection. A Novel. The New American Library, New York, 1966.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. FIRST BOOK. Quarter black cloth over boards, unclipped dust jacket, contemporary gift inscription. Minor bumping to spine and a few small tears to jacket. Near fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
John Gardner. The Resurrection. New American Library, New York, 1966.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Book has light bumping to the bottom of the spine. The jacket has light wear and creasing to the edges with short tears to the front panel tip and upper spine. Light restoration to the verso of the spine and the top front fold. Ownership signature of Bill Gass to the front flyleaf. William Gass had his first novel, Omsetter's Luck, published by North American Library the same year as Gardner's The Resurrection . Gass had also been included in the first issue of MSS, the short lived literary magazine founded and edited by Gardner in the early 1960's. A nice association copy linking two of the major American writers from the second half of the Twentieth Century.Housed in a blue cloth Solander case.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Gardner, John. The Resurrection. New American Library, 1966.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION of John Gardner's The Resurrection. Signed by the author on a bookplate, laid-in. Published in New York by New American Library, 1966. First Edition as First Printing stated on copyright page. First Edition of author¿s first novel. Flap price reads $4.95. 8 vo. One of an impressive string of first novels published by NAL during David Segal's brief editorial tenure (1966-68). Has mark H0077 on back board and back cover. Book in near fine condition except for chipping and rubbing on spine tips and slight bumping and fading on bottom corners and edge of book. DJ in near fine condition with tape mark on inside of front jacket, slight tear on front cover and minor glue residue on flap edges. Book comes in specially made cloth slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Resurrection. New American Library, 1966.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine first edition (so stated on the copyright page) in a fine dust jacket. Original price of $4.95 on front flap. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
John Gardner. The Resurrection. New American Library, 1966.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket.First Edition Stated. $4.95 On Flap.Signed by The Author on The Dedication Page.His first Novel 1/2500 Copies Very Scarce Especially Signed.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Gardner, John.. The Resurrection.. New American Library, New York, 1966.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine (boards are somewhat bowed and there are touches of wear at the tips) in dj that is unfaded and with only slight touches of wear. One of 2500 copies, this copy of John Gardner's first novel is signed by him on the front free endpaper. This novel was Gardner's second regularly published book (the anthology, Forms of Fiction, which Gardner edited with Lennis Dunlap, was its only predecessor) and the first Gardner "A" item. This is a handsome copy and seldom seen in this condition.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.