Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1962
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Thick 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 7/8"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped),[x] + 469 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 8 oz. Engaging anthology with choice autobiographical and oft-related literary contents pertaining to Alexander Dumas, père: "Selections of the greatest writing from The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Criso, The Autobiography, and many other novels and papers. With a running commentary by the editor, Guy Endore." Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) aka Dumas père [meaning the "father" of Alexandre Dumas, fils (his talented writer "son") was a bestselling, prolific author who wrote in several genres. He is best known for his historical novels of high adventure including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and Twenty Years After. When Dumas' magazine articles, plays, letters, and travel books are added, his collected works amount to more than 100,000 pages--hence the advantage of having this Excellent selection. Solid, clean and uncommon copy in a NF unclipped, bright dust jacket with slight edgewear. Offset on front endpapers from a now removed 16mo [news]paper. Light uniform age-toning.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1962
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition stated. Full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 469 p.p. Sunning to head, bumping to spine ends and foot of front board, chafing to corners, a few damp stains and spots to boards. Bubbling to spine. Dust jacket worn and creased at edges, a few chips and short tears. Foxing to fore edge, interior clean.
Published by The Screen Writers Guild, Inc., Hollywood, 1945
First Edition
Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Vol. 1, number 7. Dalton Trumbo (editor) Close to fine in grey printed & stapled wrappers. (Faint trasce of off-setting at head of front cover. ) Features articles by: Philip Dunne, John Lardner, Guy Endore & Arch Obler. Uncommon film industry journal. ; 6" x 9"; 44 pages.