Gardner, John and Dunlap, Lennis.. The Forms of Fiction.. NY, Random House, 1962, 1962.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Description: NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.

Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of Fiction. Random House, New York, 1962.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Printed papercovered boards. Corners rubbed, a near fine copy without dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by co-author John Gardner: "For Janet Turner - for reading on winter nights when no owls are out - John." Gardner's first book, a textbook. The fragile papercovered boards tend to be well-worn when encountered.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.