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Hutchison, Collister. Toward Daybreak. Harper & Brothers, 1950.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" xv, [3], 88, [1] pages. Notable for the preface by Jules Romains (in French, plus English translation by H.F. Broch de Rothermann), as well as the reproductions of drawings by Marc Chagall. A very good- copy in very good- dust jacket with slight sunning to jacket spine; few small nicks to top edge of jacket upper cover; slight rubbing, browning and price clip to jacket; lacks front free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers; still a very serviceable copy of a somewhat scarce item.Chagall, Marc; 4 b/w Illustrations.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by Hutchison at FFEP, to a previous owner. Illustrated with four drawings by Marc Chagall. 88 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, tears and chips, light toning. Tiny stain at top edge of front inner flap, FFEP, and half title. Small newspaper clipping for a talk with Hutchison is taped at FFEP, with a photo of the poet. Pages are otherwise clean; text unmarked. A tight, solid copy.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.70 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 88 pp., frontis., four b/w plates. Inscribed and signed by the author. Poetry. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, insect damage to boards along bottom edges and to bottom front corner; top page corners lightly bumped. Jacket present but significantly insect damaged.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hutchison, Collister. TOWARD DAYBREAK. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1950.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [xviii], 88pp [edgewear and general wear to dj] ---- Author's 1962 inscription includes 6-line transcription of poem from book in her writing ---- Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: David H. Gerber Books (gerberbooks), Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This hardcover book is Fine, being square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering; with a whisper of touch to the points and the extremities at the spine. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. There is a bookplate on the free end page of "The John Adams Lowe Collection of American Poetry 1936 Rochester Public Library". The dustjacket is Good, with minor wear to the points and extremities at the spine. Also, there is moderate wear, tears, and a chip along the edges. Original Price is intact. There are no other library markings other than the bookplate reference. No remainder mark. This book is signed by the Author on the free end page without inscription.
Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
HUTCHISON, Collister. Toward Daybreak. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1950.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Preface by Jules Romains. Illustrated in black and white by Marc Chagall. Large octavo. Near fine with light bumping to the spine ends and light wear to the bottom edge in a very good dust jacket with a 4" closed tear to the front panel and a 3" closed tear to the back panel both originating at the top of the spine, nicking to the spine ends, rubbing to the spine, and toning.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Preface by Jules Romains. Drawings by Marc Chagall. Some offsetting on the front fly, edgewear, else very good in about very good dustwrapper with small chips abd tears and old tape shadows on the inside of the jacket. Inscribed by the author with four lines of poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hutchinson, Collister.. Toward Daybreak.. NY. Harper & Brothers. 1950., 1950.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With drawings by Marc Chagall. With an autographed 17-line poem and signed presentation to actor Jose Ferrer on the front endpaper. VG+/VG+ in two-toned cloth and edgeworn and chipped d/w. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.