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Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the author first book. Laid-in is a postcard Signed by the Author - The book itself is not signed. The book is in Very Good- condition and lacks the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine joints, and edges of the book covers have heavy rubbing. The bottom front spine joint has cracking. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but there is some light toning to the edges. The endpapers have more noticeable toning. There is some light off-setting to the text pages. "Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 July 9, 1968) was a writer best known for his popular historical novels of the Old West.Fisher was, perhaps, the most significant twentieth century novelist who was both a native and longtime resident of Idaho. He chafed at being compared with such better-known writers associated with the state as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. When appointed to head the Idaho branch of the Federal Writers Project under the WPA, Fisher quipped that he had been chosen because there were only three writers in Idaho, and he was the only one who was unemployed. Frederick Manfred, who was among Fisher's staunchest literary champions, declared that Dark Bridwell (1931) was Fisher's best novel and that Hemingway never wrote anything so good." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
FISHER, VARDIS.. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna. New York: Harold Vinal, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's first book. Signed presentation copy inscribed; 'To Col. Nathan N. Wallach. With warm regards, Vardis Fisher.' Near fine in a dust jacket with some splitting, small tears and a few tiny chips. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna - SIGNED 1st. Harold Vinal, New York, NY, 1927.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UNION S-This smallish hardcover is SIGNED and inscribed with an original 6 line poem by the AUTHOR and is in GOOD+ condition with heavily worn edges/tips. 1st edition of the author's first book. 47pp. plain black spine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper title labels on the front board and backstrip. The edges of the covers are rubbed, and there are thin losses from the spine ends. The free endpapers are dampstained along the fore edges. Ex libris Ingle Barr, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with subtle darkening to the edges, and occasional small open edge tears. The author's first work in an original, scarce dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the noted book collector, Ingle Barr, by Vardis Fisher on the front free endpaper: "Dear Ingle Barr- / I am sorry you own / this. These sonnets are so / 'adolescent' / (?) every copy of them were / lost. They will never be / reprinted / Vardis Fisher."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.