Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 100 copies, signed by the author. Natural linen with paper title label and small illustrated paper cover label. Very Good+ -- some natural darkening and a tiny nick to one of the paper boards, otherwise completely free of markings. Issued without jacket.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Wilson, Edmund. Boys in the Back Room, The. Colt Press, San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, limited to 100 copies printed on special paper and signed by the author May 1941. This is copy number 35. Near Fine, with corners bumped, with no dust jacket, as issued.
Seller: Books As Issued, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: San Francisco: The Colt Press. 1941. Limited edition of one of 100 copies signed by Edmund Wilson on the limitation page. 72 pages. Includes short essays on Cain, O'Hara, Saroyan, Hans Otto Storm, Steinbeck, general essay "Facing the Pacific" on California writing. Gray linen cloth with Colt Press illustration on cover. Tall octavo. Bookplate, otherwise near fine copy. No dust jacket as issued.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 100 copies signed by Wilson, printed on special paper, and specially bound. Original beige linen with paper labels (covers slightly spotted as usual), two leaves roughly opened with small tears on the fore-edge, otherwise a nice copy, partially unopened. On James M. Cain, William Saroyan, John O'Hara.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 9.5 x 6.25", cloth backed pict boards, 72pp, covers well worn, soiled, abraded, spine sunned and torn at bottom, spine label chipped, corners bumped and chipped, couple of small pin spots on front endpapers; one of 1500 copies. SWAF. INSCRIBED "Dear Peggy: this is by no means the most remarkable of my books, but it is the best turned-out typographically." AND SIGNED "Love from EW" BY THE AUTHOR, who adds the date "June 17, 1941"
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 copies, printed on special paper, signed by Edmund Wilson. 72, [2]pp. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY EDMUND WILSON. A collection of essays by Wilson, on John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, John O'Hara et al. Ramsey p. 19 Cloth spine is lightly rubbed, lower fore-corners a bit bumped (with light wear to paper covering), else a near fine copy in dust jacket; jacket spine is tanned and nicked, with light wear at tips of corners, else quite bright First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 copies, printed on special paper, signed by Edmund Wilson.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Edmud Wilson. The Boys in The Back Room. The Colt Press:San Francisco, 1941.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition 1/100 Copies Signed By Wilson on Special Paper #40 Very Scarce Ink Inscription Beautiful Fresh Copy of California Writers.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Natural linen with paper title label and small illustrated paper cover label. Warmly inscribed by Jane Grabhorn, founder of the Colt Press. The slightest of browning to edges, overall fine in custom mylar cover. First edition, one of 100 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 100 specially bound deluxe copies signed by the author, Edmund Wilson. Fine clean copy, scarce in this condition. WilsonÕs landmark studies of John Steinbeck, James M. Cain, John OÕHara, William Saroyan, and Hans Otto Storm.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.