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PORTER, Katharine Anne.. The Leaning Tower and Other Stories.. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 246 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Later printing. Very slight use to the cloth; tight and sound in a jacket with several small chips and tanning to the spine and rear panel. Inscribed and signed "with all good wishes" by Katherine Anne Porter on the front free endpaper, 15 December 1944.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne.. THE LEANING TOWER AND OTHER STORIES.. Harcourt, Brace, 1944.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo [ 5 ¾ X 8 ¼ inches ], ivory cloth, title on spine and front board, in clipped dust jacket, 246 pages, signed by the author on front fly leaf.
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in buff colored buckram cloth lettered in black. Inscribed in inlk of the front free endpaper: "For Katherine _____/ From/ Katherine Anne Porter/ With best wishes/ 14 December, 1944". Very good, bit of occasional light solining to the cloth. No jacket. Porter (d. 1980) was a Texas native, winner of the 1965 Puliter Prize for Literature for her "Collected Short Stories"
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A fairly ordinary copy with the spine slightly yellowed and the corners are slightly bumped. Jacket has a dime sized chip to the spine head and other minor edge wear. What makes this copy unusual is that it has a gift inscription from Larry Mcmurtry. Inscribed on the front endpaper to an unnamed friend This is a birthday present I didn't find in time. With the appropriate endearments. Larry. Probably a fairly early inscription but as it is undated that would be speculation. This came from an important New York auction and is guaranteed to be authentic.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. THE LEANING TOWER AND OTHER STORIES. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1944.
Price: US$131.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Beige cloth cover has very lightly bumped corners and toning/foxing otherwise clean and overall in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet. Inscribed and signed by author of title page. Pages are lightly toned but clean and near pristine. Dust jacket is toned, tattered, torn, and chipped but clean. Publisher's price of $2.50 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); Signed by Author
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$159.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth printing. A VG+ copy in a VG+ price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the FEP.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Leaning Tower. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1944.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bluff cloth titled in black, green topstain. Edition not stated; states b.9.44. Inscribed to the ffep by Porter, with her date of November 7, 1944. The first line of the inscription with the PO name has been rubbed out. Points lightly bumped else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned, lightly chipped, and price clipped, with some closed edge tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed to a prior owner by the author with quotation on the fly leaf. First edition stated. Hardcover, bound in cloth with dust jacket. Toning, short repaired tear to the half-title.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE. THE LEANING TOWER. , 1944.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: PORTER, Katherine Anne. THE LEANING TOWER AND OTHER STORIES. NY: Harcourt, Brace, [1944]. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Porter on the front endpaper, dated Mar. 17, 1957. Near fine (little darkening head spine); moderate edgewear (few tiny tears) d/j. $350.00.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1944.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by Porter to her favorite nephew Paul Porter, Jr. under the printed dedication (which reads "To Corporal Harrison Paul Porter, Jr.): "To Paul in France this copy of his Wartime book. Son of Paul, grand-son of Harry, great-grandson of The Source, The Nephew of Miranda and Maria; and I made Charles Upton [the principal character in the title story] a painter on your account. You see how I had you in my mind and my heart! Aunt Katherine Anne, September 15, 1944." On the copyright page Porter has added "Published September 14, 1944." The dedicatee was the member of the Porter family for whom Katherine Anne had the greatest ambitions; he eventually became her legal guardian. Waldrip & Bauer A9a. (BA). Cloth spine darkened, slight wear at ends of spine and at lower fore-corner; jacket with an inch by half-inch piece chipped from top of spine area, smaller piece chopped from top edge of front panel. Actually a very good copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.