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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Second printing, October, 1930" on copyright page; hardcover in light beige cloth, covers rubbed age-toned and lightly spotted [photo], joints loosening, endpapers lightly foxed; internally tight and unmarked, a fe very small occasional age spots, otherwise clean
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Edited by Walter S. Hankel. Illustrated by Bill Gropper. Owner name on front fly, light scattered spotting on pages with cracked gutters, binding cocked, boards rubbed with tiny nicks on spine, good only in a good only variant dust jacket (see *Bowden* D7a: the upper two thirds of dust jacket is yellowish-orange background, the bottom third is sienna background, printed in blue) with several chips and tears, a large chip on the front panel, soiling, and interior tape repairs. Contains the first book appearance of "Gorgonzola: or the Future of Literary Criticism" by Edmund Wilson, "Quo Vadimus? or the Fate of Complexity" by E. B. White, "Freud: or the Future of Psychoanalysis" by James Thurber, and additional contributions by Corey Ford, E.E. Cummings, and Malcolm Cowley.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, 279 pages, black cloth, tiny puncture to front free endpaper; dj nicked at extremities. NOTE: this is in the remainder dust jacket for the Gold Label Books. ; Twelve contributions by brilliant minds of important topics of the day, concerning tomorrow, as revealed in such areas as debauchery, the atom, literary criticism, ocean travel, art, music, Coolidge, etc. The luminaries include Corey Ford, e. e. cummings, Kenneth Burke, Edmund Wilson, Slater Brown, James Thurber, Robert M. Coates, John Wheelwright, Isidore Schneider, E. B. White, Matthew Josephson, Malcolm Cowley. [ Bowden, Thurber Biblography, D7a; Firmage, Cummings Bibliography, C5-6 ]. Illustrations by Bill Gropper.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RARE IN ORIGINAL JACKET. Very scarce anthology, with work by James Thurber, E.B. White, E.E. Cummings, Edmund Wilson,Malcolm Cowley, et al. First edition, second printing (September, 1930), of the Macaulay sheets in the Gold Label Books remainder binding and original jacket with Gold Label imprint (jacket has some nicks and closed tears).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition in the Gold Medal Books remainder dust jacket. ÒTwelve brilliant minds, in solemn conference, have gathered together the fruits of their college education, deep study of one thing or another, and sexual experiences, for your care and guidanceÓ. A compilation of essays on sex and the future by such authors as: James Thurber, E.B. White, E.E. Cummings, Edmund Wilson, Robert M. Coates, Malcolm Cowley, etc. Fine in a very good internally repaired remainder issue dust jacket with some chipping and a slightly sunned spine. The color dust jacket is illustrated as well by Gropper.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Edited by Walter S. Hankel. Illustrated by Bill Gropper. Owner's early, small rubberstamp on front pastedown, and same owner's early ink name on front flyleaf, faint stain on top edge, else a bright, very good copy in variant dust jacket (see *Bowden* D7a: the upper two thirds of dust jacket is yellowish-orange background, the bottom third is sienna background, printed in blue), slightly faded on spine. Contains the first book appearance of "Gorgonzola: or the Future of Literary Criticism" by Edmund Wilson, "Quo Vadimus? or the Fate of Complexity" by E. B. White, "Freud: or the Future of Psychoanalysis" by James Thurber, and additional contributions by Corey Ford, E.E. Cummings, and Malcolm Cowley.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.