Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small folio. 22 two-tone illustrations by W.R. Davenport. Original 1/2 gilt stamped light brown cloth over tan and red patterned boards (corners bruised), uncut. Very good. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. No other signatures or bookplates. One of 500 unnumbered copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press. Presentation copy, with a card signed and inscribed by Alfred Sutro laid in loose. Heller & Magee 308.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Adam Smart (Alfred Sutro), W. R. Davenport (illstr). Words at Play. Grabhorn Press, 1939.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pseudonym of San Francisco attorney Alfred Sutro. Inscribed by author on the front flyleaf.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Smart, Adam. WORDS AT PLAY [inscribed]. The Grabhorn Press, 1939.
Price: US$76.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: CLEAN good 1939 first edition hardcover. INSCRIBED by Adam Smart.
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Smart, Adam [Sutro, Alfred]. Words at Play. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1939.
Price: US$99.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated punning verse from Alfred Sutro (under the pen name Adam Smart), lawyer, book collector, and long-time president of the Book Club of California. One of five hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The book is dedicated "To his own and all other grandchildren". This copy is inscribed "To Elizabeth with lover from her affectionate grandfather, Alfred Sutro (Adam Smart)". Grabhorn 308. Pink cloth backstrip slightly faded, pink pattered boards slightly worn at corners. Pages printed in black and pink. A charming work with truly terrible puns. 12.25 x 9"
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Smart, Adam [Sutro, Alfred]. Words at Play. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1939.
Price: US$99.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated punning verse from Alfred Sutro (under the pen name Adam Smart), lawyer, book collector, and long-time president of the Book Club of California. One of five hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The book is dedicated "To his own and all other grandchildren". This copy is inscribed "To Caroline with lover from her affectionate grandfather, Alfred Sutro (Adam Smart)". Caroline later added her own bookplate. Grabhorn 308. Pink cloth backstrip slightly faded, pink pattered boards slightly worn at corners. Pages printed in black and pink. A charming work with truly terrible puns. 12.25 x 9"
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. 9 x 12in. Unpaginated, complete. Publisher's quarter cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To grandmother Ethel K. Nichols and to grandfather Harry D. Nichols with our cordial Happy New Year's greetings and [illegible] Alfred Sutro (Adam Smart) December 27, 1938." FINE/AS NEW in scarce Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself is Fine/As New having been exceptionally well maintained. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, else Fine. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.