Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Fisher, Vardis. Passions Spin the Plot. Caxton Printers, 1934.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Darkening to cloth and title on spine. Signed by Fisher on title page. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT. The Caxton Printers, Caldwell, 1934.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, limited deluxe issue of 75 numbered copies signed by Fisher on the limitation page. Copy #34. Full morocco with gilt title. Illustrated bookplate of religious education writer/proponent Ida S. Blick affixed to the front free endpage. Topedge gilt. Lacks the dustjacket (which Fisher did not like). Board edges and spine fold edges rubbed and worn, spine top and bottom edges with wear and some loss, especially the bottom edge, leather split on bottom half of spine fold, text pages with beginning toning. About Good conditon.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Limited Edition of 75 copies signed by the author (this is copy 75). The second book in the Vridar Hunter tetralogy, which also included IN TRAGIC LIFE, WE ARE BETRAYED, and NO Villain NEED BE. Very Good, leather binding with small chip at top rear spine end, in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, half inch chip at top rear panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, trade issue, signed by the author on title-page; 8vo; publisher's burgundy cloth blocked in gilt, a sharp copy, original pictorial dust-jacket, a few small abrasions to upper panel, slight damage to one corner, but otherwise fine. A stunning signed copy of this the second book in Vardis Fisher's 'Vridar Hunter' tetralogy, a series of semi-autobiographical novels set largely in Idaho which established the author as a national writer of significance. This title deals with Hunter's disillusionment during his time studying at college, as it fails to supply the meaning to his life he had hoped for. Fisher was a prolific author, both of locally based fiction and historical epics, notably his vast twelve-volume The Testament of Man chronicling mankind's development from the Stone Age onwards. He had been brought up in a Mormon household, and had always struggled with religious faith, as evidenced in his historical novel Children of God (1939) about Joseph Smith and the Mormon movement.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom