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Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1947.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Stated first edition. First trade edition bound in black cloth with go ld spine lettering. Preceded by a limited, signed edition. Near fine c ondition in a very good dust jacket. Mild rubs to the book's spine tip s and corners. Name penciled on the half-title page. The dust jacket h as rubs to its corners. Chips/frays at the head and heel of its spine. Dusts soiling to its panels.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: LYDIA BAILEY, Doubleday, 1947, first edition, fine in vg dust-wrapper with a one inch long by quarter inch deep chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are beveled and covered in gray cloth. The front endpaper has a pictorial map of San Domingo, Haiti. The back endpaper has a pictorial map of the north and south boundaries of the Mediterranean Sea. The author's signature is on the limitation page; # 665/1050. A frontal matter page states, " Page from working manuscript of Lydia Bailey. The page is folded and has handwriting in pencil on one side and typed text on the other side. Two places of glue have darkened on the page where the paper used to be tipped-in. The folded paper has chips where there was formerly glue. The frontispiece is a small, tipped-in portrait. The top end of the text block has gilt. The other two text block ends have darkened. The foredge has a little foxing. The spine strip has darkened in a mottled fashion. The boards have foxing; the darkest is on the top and bottom ends. An owner's name is on the top margin of the front map. One page's bottom margin has a small stain. One page has a translation in pencil of two lines of a song. Scans e-mailed upon request.
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth.. LYDIA BAILEY.. Doubleday: Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Description: 8.5 x 6, clot, 488 pp, stamped name, inner front hinge cracked, top of spine frayed some in edge-chipped and yellowed dw. FIRST TRADE ED, AFFIXED IS KENNETH ROBERTS' BOOKPLATE Signed by him.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, Garden City, NJ, 1947.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: This copy is signed by author on a page which is tipped in. Light shelf wear. Prior owner's name on inside cover. Very light yellowing of pages. DJ has minor edge wear. Spine and back is darkened. Dark mark at spine. Time Tested Books has been located in the same place and owned by the same people for over 20 years. We have an excellent rep. We also have tens of thousands of titles in stock and are an open shop, so when in the Sacramento area, stop in.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With one page of original manuscript with pencil corrections, top edge gilt. NEAR FINE mild sunning to spine.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts SIGNED. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, black decorated cloth, 1947 , stated 1st edition, corners, Minor rub & small mended tears DJ, VG/VG-, AS-IS
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Buckham cloth (hardcover) in publisher's slipcase, beveled boards, gilt title and top edge, (10 x 7 inches). Special Limited Edition preceding First Trade Edition; Number 550 of 1050 copies (1000 for sale). 499 pages; illustrated with color frontis portrait and map endpapers. SIGNED TWICE by author on limitation page and inscribed on title page. Includes the tipped-in typed page from the working manuscript with pencil corrections. A clean, tight copy showing faint toning to spine, in a worn and rubbed slipcase Size: Tall Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Copy #129 of 1050 numbered copies signed by author. With an origiinal page of Roberts' working manuscript for this title (page 385 of this draft, beginning 'The broad brown river went winding off to our left'), typed with extensive corrections including 38 words in pencil holograph in Roberts' hand, other corrections, etc. Origiinal light gray cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; publisher's slipcase (book is fine; slipcase is largely intact with rubbing, cracks, and old masking tape repairs).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co., 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 488pp A very nice copy in similar unclipped dust jacket. Some light rubbing along spine of dj. Small piece out from back of dust jacket. REVIEW COPY with review slip laid in front. This copy is a SIGNED presentation copy by Kenneth Roberts on his bookplate which is mounted to the front fixed endpaper. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in a fair to good slipcase. Signed by the author on limitation page. Page from working manuscript laid in. Book spine has some light soiling. Slipcase is lightly soiled, is cracked but not broken at bottom front edge, and has small scars along opening edges.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: LYDIA BAILEY, Doubleday, 1947, first edition, fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some light dust-soil. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: LYDIA BAILEY, Doubleday, 1947, first edition, fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some slight dust-soil to the dust-wrapper spine. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. 1/1050 Copies Signed with manuscript page.Lightly Faded at Spine.Excellent Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$98.60 + shipping
Description: LYDIA BAILEY, Doubleday, 1947, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some slight dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, KENNETH.. Lydia Bailey. Garden City: Doubleday, 1947, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 1050 numbered and signed copies, with a page of hand corrected typescript bound in. Very good in a good publisher's slipcase with staining and wear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1947.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition; # 394/1050. SIGNED by the author. Includes a page from the Working Manuscript. 499 pages in excellent condition. Illustrated frontispiece. Mapped endpapers. Beige hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Spine a little darkened. Corners not bumped. Comes in a green slipcase with black titles on a beige labe. Slipcase is worn on the spine, corners and edges. NEAR FINE/GOOD-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition, #676 of 1050 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Limitation Page. Bound in original cloth, top edge gilt, map end pages, with page from original working manuscript tipped in, Near Fine, spine a bit darkened, no glassine jacket, in Very Good slipcase, light soiling and minor paper loss at edges, 2" tear at bottom edge. Basis for the 1952 film starring. Dale Robertson, Anne Francis, and Charles Korvin | Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo; 499 pages; Copy #736 0f 1050 signed by the author with a page of the manuscript tipped in. Just a touch of sunning to top and bottom of spine, otherwise in fine condition. Slipcase is near fine with just light rubbing and wear.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co. Inc, 1947.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in gray buckram with gilt lettering to spine. This special edition is limited to 1050 numbered and signed by the author of which this is copy #105. Laid in is folded manuscript page for chapter 44. A very nice copy. Slipcase is cracked.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Stated first edition, number 984 of a special limited ediiotn of 1050 copies, signed by the author, and with an original page from a working manuscript of this title at the front. Light gray cloth over beveled boards, gilt spine lettering, tipped on color frontis plates, map endpapers, original clear plastic dustjacket, blue slipcase with paper label. The book is in near fine condition with the manuscript leaf detached but present, good hinges, tight binding, no names or other markings. The clear plastic dustjacket is good with some wrinkling and chips, the slipcase is fair to poor with both edges of the bottom panel broken, other wear, quite possibly repairable. Signed by the Author. First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair to Poor Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth.. LYDIA BAILEY.. Doubleday: Garden City., 1947.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: 9.5 x 6.5, beveled buckram, 499 pp, t.e.g., spine darkened else ok in used splitting publisher's slipcase. FIRST ED, ONE OF 1050 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH PAGE FROM WORKING MANUSCRIPT FROM THE BOOK.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, KENNETH. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co, New York, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition Number 1024/1050. With tipped-in typed and edited page from the original manuscript. Gray buckram. Beveled edges. The book shows some minor soiling. Without the box and the glasine. VG.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Copy No. 261 of s Special Edition of 1050 Numbered and Signed by the Author, and with a page of the original working manuscript tipped in. Color frontispiece after painting by Frank Schwarz. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Page of Manuscript. Original grey buckram. Spine slightly darkened, else fine in original chipped slipcase Color frontispiece after painting by Frank Schwarz. 1 vols. 8vo Copy No. 261 of s Special Edition of 1050 Numbered and Signed by the Author, and with a page of the original working manuscript tipped in.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. A near fine copy with slight darkening to the top of the spine. The jacket is fine and the book is signed on the title page by Mr. Roberts. These is a a map of Haiti on the front end pages. On the back end pages is a mapMediterranean Sea.
Seller: Gebhard and Burkhart Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Company, 1947.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1,050 specially bound bound copies, signed by the author as well as tipped-in a one page original typescript from the book, with penciled additions and corrections in the author's hand. A Fine copy in a near Fine slipcase that has just a touch of light wear.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1947.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: hardcover book with ivory color cloth cover. Signed limited: #856 of 1050 copies. The book spine is tanned by sun light. the top edge is gilded. Page of original hand written manuscript tipped in. Slipcase split on edges. First edition. Binding is HB. Nice print of haiti map on the end papers front and back.
Seller: Grove Antiquarian, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey [Signed by Author]. Doubleday & Co, NY, 1947.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Limited, Signed; 499 clean, unmarked pages; in very good slipcase; No. 946 of 1050 copies signed by the author and with a page of the original manuscript tipped in; owner's insc Size: 8 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Lydia Bailey (Limited Edition). Doubleday & Company,, New York:, 1947.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in white cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and a gilt top edge. The cloth on the spine is very slightly tanned. The book is contained within a very good+ original, paper covered slipcase with minor wear at the corners. Signed by the author and numbered 191 out of 1,050 copies. What makes this limited edition particularly unique is that laid-in at its front is a page from Robert's, typewritten working manuscript complete with his penciled annotations and corrections. This particular page is quite unique. The typewritten side is completed crossed-out in pencil and the verso side of the page is entirely in pencil by the author which is quite unusual! An extremely attractive copy with a very unusual page from his manuscript.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday & Co., NY, 1947.
Price: US$225.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Limited edition #526/1050 copies signed by the author and includes an original typed manuscript leaf with the author's corrections in pencil tipped in, 499 pp., bound in gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, in original glassine wrapper with tears and paper covered slipcase with paper label, a fine copy in very good slipcase which shows wear at corners with splits at edges.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$261.00 + shipping
Description: LYDIA BAILEY, Doubleday, 1947, first edition, 1/721 SIGNED and numbered by the author. Just about fine in a lightly worn box as issued. Along with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED to a well known small press publisher ( about 100 words ) mentioning a little known fact about the novel and that 20th Century Fox has had the film rights for years, etc.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. LYDIA BAILEY. Doubleday, 1947.
Price: US$261.00 + shipping
Description: LYDIA BAILEY, Doubleday, 1947, first edition, fine in like slip-case. 1/1,050 specially bound copies SIGNED by the author with one page of typescript tipped in, this one with some holographic additions as well.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, 1947.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1947. Flat signed by author, First Edition. No. 688 of 1050 numbered and signed copies, with a page of manuscript bound in. Very good in a good slipcase, gilt top edge and deckle fore edge. Tightly bound in tan cloth over beveled boards, endpapers are maps. The manuscript page of typescript has numerous corrections in pencil by Roberts.
Seller: Ariel's Book Nook, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. , 1947.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: ROBERTS, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1947. First edition. One of 1,050 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Tipped in is a page of the working manuscript. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts. Signed and numbered limited edition with typed manuscript page tipped in including penciled corrections. Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, 1947. This being number 546 of 1050 copies. Binding is in fine condition. Signed and numbered on the limitation page. 499 pages. Wonderful copy. Housed in a publishers slipcase with titled pastedown in very good condition. Protected in a plastic sleeve. Inventory #15-468. Price: $300. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey. Doubleday, Garden City, 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts. Signed and numbered limited edition with initiated typed manuscript page tipped in. Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, 1947. This being number 127 of 1050 copies. Binding is in fine condition. Signed and numbered on the limitation page. 499 pages. Wonderful copy. Inventory #11-385. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, KENNETH.. Lydia Bailey. Garden City: Doubleday, 1947, 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 1050 numbered and signed copies, with a page of manuscript bound in. Spine a little darkened; very good to fine in a very good publisher's slipcase. Instead of a number, this copy has been inscribed by the author on the colophon page to his editor and friend, 'Private for Malcolm and Tilly Johnson. Kenneth Roberts.' The page of typescript has numerous corrections in pencil by Roberts, and is noted as page 45. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. Lydia Bailey [Limited Manuscript Edition]. Doubleday, New York, 1947.
Price: US$302.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Limited issue; no. 993 of 1050 signed copies, with original leaf from the manuscript tipped-in as issued. Octavo (24.5cm). Tan buckram in glassine jacket and slipcase; top edge gilt; 499pp. A very fresh, Fine copy in original glassine and original publisher's slipcase, lightly rubbed but still Near Fine. The bound-in leaf is page 520 of the original manuscript, heavily corrected in pencil. Late novel by the best-selling Maine author, an historical romance of the Haitian Revolution. It was adopted for film in 1952; Michael Blankfort contributed to the screenplay and Anne Francis starred in the title role.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. LYDIA BAILEY Signed 1st. Doubleday, New York, 1947.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Fair clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Owner personalization on half title page. Open tearing throughout. Separation between dust jacket spine and front panel. ; Personalized by author on 2nd FEP. ; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.