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Kenneth Roberts. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday, Doran & Company inc., New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes. 8vo. Ltd. numbered SIGNED edition 1043/1000 copies. SIGNED by author. T.e.g. Deckled edges. Slight shelfwear to edges. Rubbing to spine title of vol. 1. Slight rubbing to cloth binding. Light stains to slipcase. Rubbing and fading to slipcase. Edgewear to slipcase. Slipcase splitting at rear top edge and rear joint. VG in VG slipcase. THE SET:
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday, Doran, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Kenneth Roberts on his special printed leaf at front (which reads 'Kenneth Roberts Inscribed for a [blank] by a neighbor and well-wisher.' This copy just signed (no recipient's name). A near fine first edition hardcover in jacket (jacket has slight fading and edge wear with one tiny closed tear).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$107.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in very good condition. Signed by author. Limited edition, number 446 of 1050. Volume 1 only.
Seller: Rob the Book Man, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1050 signed and numbered copies printed, this being #719. Two volumes in the original bround cloth with gilt titles on spine. Lacking the original slipcase but doe come in a later buckram case. A Fine set with just a hint of light rubbing along the tops of the spines.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell (2 Volume Set). Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set. Signed and numbered by Kenneth Roberts. Number 385 of 1050. Bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. Lacks the slipcase.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell (2 Volumes). Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, New York, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Produced in a limited edition of 1,50 copies, 1,000 of which were for sale, this being #566 and signed by the author on the colophon. 411, 415-849 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gold embossed titlinig to spine, top edge gilt, color maps illustrate the endpapers of each volume. Both volumes retain the original clear plastic dust jacket and are encased in a matching cloth slipcase in Very Good condition with a paper title pasted to front cover.
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set, numbered 205 of 1050 copies, signed by the author on a limitation page. Brown hardcover cloth bindings with minor brwning/sunning to the spines and minor shelfwear. Lacking the dustjackets and slipcase. The endpapers are map illustrated. Top edge git. Vol. I: [x], 411 pages. Vol. II: [iv], [412]-849 pages, including a bibliography. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of Oliver Wiswell after Grant Wood's painting. Numerous pages are uncut and unopened. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Wood, Grant. Limited Special Two-Volume Edition. no. 584 of 1050 copies signed by the author. Color frontispiece after Grant Wood. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gray buckram, about fine, t.e.g., rest uncut. Bookplate of Clarence Dillon, Dunwalke Library and signature of his son C. Douglas Dillon on ffep Color frontispiece after Grant Wood. 2 vols. 8vo Limited Special Two-Volume Edition. no. 584 of 1050 copies signed by the author.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. OLIVER WISWELL. Doubleday, Doran, 1940.
Price: US$156.60 + shipping
Description: OLIVER WISWELL, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, first edition, fine in just about fine dust-wrapper. 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. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, New York, 1940.
Price: US$158.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Beautiful copy of a low number (83) copy of the limited two volume first edition Tan Buckram binding, with gilt titles on spines and blindstamped author's initials on covers, both in excellent condition slipcase as issued Volume 1 paginated to 411, Volume 2 continued pagination to 849 Although Roberts' Northwest Passage is perhaps better known, this novel, describing the Revolutionary War from a Loyalist perspective, is considered by many to be his best work Note: This is a very heavy set, so please keep in mind my policy of free shipping in the US when comparing prices of similar offerings.
Seller: Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 vols. 8vo. Original cloth. Copy #2 of 1050 copies signed by the author. Lovely copies. Although nothing in the books explicitly indicates as much, this set from the library of Nelson Doubleday.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. OLIVER WISWELL. Doubleday, Doran, 1940.
Price: US$226.20 + shipping
Description: OLIVER WISWELL, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, first edition, 2 volumes, fine in near fine slip-case. 1/1,050 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. , 1940.
Price: US$247.50 + shipping
Description: ROBERTS, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Two vols. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1940. First edition. One of 1,050 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Fine in a worn slipcase.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Oliver Wiswell (Limited Edition). Doubleday, Doran Co.,, New York:, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in brown buckram covered boards with beveled edge boards, gilt text stamping on the spines and gilt edges to the top edges of the text blocks. Neither volume has its original cellophane wrapper (which are seldom seen), but both books are contained within a very near fine slipcase with an undamaged paper label. This set is signed by Roberts and numbered 120 out of only 1,050 copies printed and sold. This title was a best selling novel for Roberts. It provides an insightful look at the American Revolution from a Loyalist's point-of-view. After reading it one is astounded that the war was even won by the American forces.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth.. Oliver Wiswell.. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, first edition. Two volumes, de luxe binding, TEG, full red leather, two gilt rules around front and back covers, spine with five raised bands with title, author, volume number, and date in gilt along with other gilt rules and decor, marbled endpapers with gilt decor around inside front and rear covers, with Thomas Buell's map of Loyal Long Island 1776-1783 to show Howe's victory over the rebels at Brooklyn Aug. 27, 1776 and the capture of New York Sept. 15, 1776 in Vol. I, color frontispiece portrait of Oliver Wiswell from the painting by Grant Wood, Buell's map of Virginia and the Carolinas showing Boone's wilderness road to Kentucky in Vol. II, No. 182 of 1,050 copies Signed by Roberts, this was Doubleday, Doran publishing executive Malcolm Johnson's copy with a letter of provenance from his daughter-in-law, Johnson is one of several people acknowledged by Roberts just before the beginning of the book, although the standard signed/limited edition of this book (in brown cloth) came with a slipcase, it is unlikely that this de luxe binding was issued to Johnson in that manner. Minor damp staining to bottom spine of Vol. I, both volumes with wear to leather along the spines, else a very solid set.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1940.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts. Two volume limited edition in publishers slipcase. Publisher: Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1940. First edition so stated on the copyright page. Signed and numbered on the limitation page. This being number794 of 1050 copies. Bindings are in fine condition. Pages 3-411, 415-849. Contents clean. Top edge gilt. Slipcase is in fine condition, original slipcase re-papered, original label present. Inventory #20-055. Price: $500.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.