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Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by John Gardner on a bookplate attached to first free end page (signature only). Woodcut drawings by Mary Azarian. Knopf r/m on bottom. Some light browning to spine as is common with this edition with off-white cloth colored boards. Hint of foxing to unpagenated fore-edge. $12.95 price present on DJ flap. Mylar covered. Also includes laid-in is the original 1982 Philaelphia Inquirer obituary for Gardner, as well as the original 1984 New York Times Book Review tribute to Gardner by Nicholas Delbanco entitled " Remembering John Gardner: His Moderation Was Our Excess". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$960.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Signed boldly by the author directly to a second half-title page, following the title page. From the esteemed modern first collection of Joy Kritzer, the book is unread and is in absolutely fine condition. The extremely fragile paper dust jacket - which is now protected by a removable Brodart archival cover - is easily near fine+, with just the seemingly ubiquitous very light edgewear/light rubbing to the corners and spine ends. A beautiful collectible copy of one of the only signed copies available online, as Mr. Gardner perished in a tragic motorcycle accident shortly after publication. An incredibly scarce signed copy thus. Please be sure to check out the other signed John Gardner titles in my inventory. I ship all of my books bubble-wrapped in sturdy, very well-padded boxes, so they are guaranteed to arrive in the exact same condition as when they left. Please feel free to email with any questions/offers/trades and thank you for supporting small independent booksellers everywhere.
Seller: Dexter's Book Cellar, Stratford, CT, U.S.A.