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ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New YorkB, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 317 pages. Large 8vo, original vellum-backed black boards (spine sun-darkened and foxed, as usual; contemporary ownership info on front pastedown; wrinkle on front flyleaf). New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Limited First Edition. A very good copy. Number 80 of 350 signed copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1925.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 259 of 350 numbered and signed. In slipcase. (20 lettered copies were also printed.) Slipcase taped together, but Very Good. Book: usual foxing to the vellum spine, toning to page edges. First printing. Signed by author on limitation page. Quarter vellum with vellum tips. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Dark Laughter.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 319 pp. 8vo, publisher's vellum-backed boards in slipcase. First edition; No. 307 of 350 copies signed by Anderson. A very good copy with the usual foxing to the vellum, in a slipcase which exhibits a moderate amount of wear at the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Limited edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very special gift inscription from the Author on the limitation page that reads: "In memory of one of the most charming evenings of my life -- in [.] to F. H Schoolcraft -- in whose house it happened. December 10, 1924." Quarter vellum with vellum tips. Black covers with red lettering. #165 of 350 Signed copies. There is splitting of the joint behind the front cover with webbing visible. Binding is still tight. The usual browning of the vellum. This comes with the original dark slipcase but the case is split at the joints at the bottom. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a FAIR book in a POOR slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, signed issue. Tall octavo. 319pp. Vellum spine and tips moderately tanned and spotted (as usual), short closed tear at crown, hinges are split but neatly strengthened, corners bumped, a very good copy. One of 350 numbered copies, signed by Sherwood Anderson (from a total edition of 370 copies).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Vellum spine mottled as usual, else near fine in a very good, rubbed publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited First Edition.Fine Copy With Vellum Spine.1/350 Signed copies #48. Beautiful Copy. Ownership Book Plate
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No Dust Jacket as issued. Limited Edition. This is the first edition of Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson, issued as a signed limited edition, and published by Boni & Liveright in New York in 1925. It is number 252 of 350. This copy is in very good condition. In heavily worn slip case.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: No. 65 of 350 copies signed by the author. 317 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Parchment-backed black boards. Spine darkened, else Near Fine. Bookplate No. 65 of 350 copies signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed by Artist to his wife. One if a kind piece in near fine/fine condition.
Seller: SWBooks, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: DARK LAUGHTER, Boni & Liveright, 1925, first edition, a vg+ copy. 1/350 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. (Satirized by Hemingway as THE TORRENTS OF SPRING).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, Inc., New York, 1925.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. An earlier owner has given it cloth folding case and morocco backed slipcase, now slightly darkened at the top.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Three books and one typed letter signed by American author Sherwood Anderson: Sherwood Anderson. A Story Teller's Story. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924. First edition, signed by the author on the half title. Lacking dust jacket. Included with the volume are several contemporary news clippings about Anderson. Very good; light rubbing to edges and corners of boards; text block age-toned. Sherwood Anderson. The American County Fair. New York: Random House, 1930. First edition; limited edition of 875 unnumbered copies. Octavo, 13 pages. Very good-. Heavy paper wraps, somewhat tanned, with paper label pasted to narrow spine. Text block slightly age-toned. Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Special limited edition, 169 of 350. Signed by the author on limitations page. Octavo, 319 pages. Very good-; light discoloration to spine, minor bumping and rubbing to head and tail of spine, edges and corners of boards. Significant cracking to hinges. Text block lightly age-toned and very slightly foxed. A typed letter signed by Anderson, directed to "Burton and Mary" (no other name given) and dated June 18, 1931. Anderson writes about the possibility of publishing two editions of a speech he had given the previous winter, which a friend of Burton's might print for him. Good+/very good-; creased from mailing and with light wear from handling; damp staining across the lower two-thirds of the document. Shelved Off Sales Floor Room A {S's Office}. CX Consignment. 1348122. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. DARK LAUGHTER. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Original vellum-backed and tipped boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red. Copy H of 20 Lettered copies (of a total edition of 370) SIGNED by the author. Obviously a scarce issue of this book, a novel that dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and that was influenced by James Joyce's ULYSSES. DARK LAUGHTER was Anderson's only best-seller during his lifetime, though today he is better known for WINESBURG, OHIO. Ernest Hemingway parodied DARK LAUGHTER in his early short work THE TORRENTS OF SPRING. Hemingway's novella mocked the pretensions of Anderson's style and characters. Gertrude Stein, Hemingway's former mentor, objected to the young writer's parody of a writer who had helped him get published, resulting in a falling-out. Owner name on front endpaper; hinges repaired. Edgewear; tears to top of spine, which is darkened, with no loss; lettering to cover rubbed. Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Printing. Signed in green fountain ink by Anderson on half-title page. Jacket is missing top 1/4 inch of edge, chipping at tail, edge and corner wear and creasing. Not Price clipped. Book: cocked, loose at the hinges with crack in pastedowns, owner's bookplate on front paste down. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: #314 of 350 in special edition signed by Anderson; in a mildly shelfworn slip case, no jacket as issued. The book "dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. Though he is today better known for Winesburg, Ohio, Dark Laughter was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924 1944. This copy purchased some 20 years ago at Heritage in LA.
Seller: Richard Drive Books & Collectibles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.