Fuchs Daniel William Maxwell (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Book corners, spine ends and edges lightly rubbed & bumped. Small dark speck fore-edge pages. Unclipped DJ protected in mylar, spine lightly faded, edges lightly worn, few small tears. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; Yellow cloth spine, green boards, top edge pages tinted yellow, 309pp. Anthology of several short stories by the above authors. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Browning to jacket. Price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half yellow cloth, olive boards. Tail of spine bumped. Jacket tanned on spine, torn and reinforced at head. Great self-selected collection of stories by The New Yorker's finest short story writers. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 309 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with a bit of a slant to spine; in a very good dust jacket with a 1-1/2 inch closed tear to the front panel.

First Edition. First Edition. Previous owner nameplate. Very Good condition. No dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 309 pages. Hardcover. Sage cloth covered boards with black printed titles to yellow cloth spine. Yellow top edge. Toning to edges throughout. Original dust jacket with age toning to edges, small tears, & price clipped. Clean & unmarked. A nice copy. Record # 751152.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood Copy, Ex-Library Book, Dust jacket is price clipped, residue from pocket being removed from rear end pages, pages are clean but tan, 8vo, 309 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint with a new introduction by William Peden. A collection of stories originally published in 1956. About fine in very good dust jacket with a few internal tape repairs, rubbing and slight sunning at the spine.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First UK Edition, preceded by the US edition published by Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy in 1956 (the previous year). Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly foxed page edges, with a lightly faded spine. Jacket is lightly toned to the spine, with light soil overall and a small, light dampstain to the bottom left corner of the rear panel.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket protected by archival cover. Some tearing to front of jacket has been neatly repaired by the archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Ronald Clyne (illustrator). First Edition. [good sound copy, slight deterioration of binding at crown of spine, faint staining at base of spine; jacket lightly browned (a bit more at spine) and edgeworn, some minor nicking at spine ends, light staining at base ed at base (almost entirely obscured externally by the patterned jacket design)]. This collection of 15 stories by four authors "is not an anthology," claims the jacket blurb, but rather a selection by each of the four "from their recent work the stories they think most highly of, and they are published together here because the four authors like the idea of appearing in public side by side, and of being read in counterpoint, as it were." Contents are as follows. Jean Stafford: "The Liberation"; "Bad Characters"; "Beatrice Trueblood's Story"; "In the Zoo"; "Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience." John Cheever: "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well"; "The Bus to St. James's"; "The Country Husband"; "The National Pastime." Daniel Fuchs: "Man in the Middle of the Ocean"; "The Golden West"; "Twilight in Southern California." William Maxwell: "What Every Boy Should Know"; "The Trojan Women"; "The French Scarecrow." You're welcome.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 309 pages, a collection of short stories from four authors, 1st printing. Minor corner bump and edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy. Record # 853720.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First printing. 6 x 8 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, mild wear to corners, spine ends bumped. Binding tight. Name on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD ; not clipped, toned, edges worn tears to spine. Fic. (S) RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near fine with soiling at the crown in a priceclipped about near fine dustwrapper lightly sunned at the spine, wear at the crown and tiny tear on the rear. Browning. Stories by Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, and William Maxwell.

Condition: FINE. First printing. An uncommon collection - four authors, who have little in common except that they are about the same age, and that they like and respect each other's works, selected the recent work they liked best to appear in this volume together Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped, slight change of color on the spine of the dj.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Green hard cover with yellow spine - small signs of age/Good+. In DJ - wear around spine and corner tips/Fair. 309 pages. Content Good+. First printing stated. (515g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1956. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($3.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has some toning on jacket and chipping at extremities (as pictured). Includes Stafford's "The Liberation", "Bad Characters", "Beatrice Trueblood's Story", "In the Zoo", "Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience"; Cheever's "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well", "The Bus to St. James's", "The Country Husband", and "The National Pastime"; Fuchs' "Man in the Middle of the Ocean", "The Golden West", "Twilight in Southern California"; and Maxwell's "What Every Boy Should Know", "The Trojan Women", and "The French Scarecrow". Anthologies.

Hardcover. First Edition. 309pp. Cloth backed boards, top edge stained yellow. Collects fifteen short stories. Light foxing to endpapers. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with mild toning to the spine panel, a hint of foxing to the flaps, and a closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. Dustjacket design by Ronald Clyne. ; Octavo.

small name/address sticker on front endpaper, else near fine in very good+ price-clipped dust jacket includes previously unpublished stories by these 4 masters of the form. 1st edition.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Four writers chose the recent stories they think most highly of, and are published together because they like the idea of appearing in public side by side. Very good copy, with tape marks and a faint vertical fold on the front flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First. Stated first edition. Binding tight and straight, corners show light wear. Inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is price-intact, small edgechips, creases, now protected within mylar cover.; 309 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectable, very good. 1st. VG+ book in G+ jacket. First printing. Yellow and green hardcover, 1956, stated first printing, jacket not price clipped (3.95). Book has very slight wear at extremities otherwise like new. Jacket has has moderate edgewear including a 1/4 x 3/4" chip missing from top of spine and small chips missing from the edges of all folds, very slight loss of color along front hinge; jacket now attractively displayed in a removable clear mylar sleeve. **We are a small family business selling online since 1999 with over 30 years' experience providing fine new and pre-owned books. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. **Your purchase supports our town's public library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with modest toning and a scuff, both on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Previous owner's notation on the front fly else fine in near fine, lightly tanned dustwrapper with a small hole on the spine.

First edition, of this cooperative collection, inscribed by Stafford "For Olga with warm love, Jean."Cloth backed boards, very good in dust jacket. Bookplate of Sister Mary E. Pierce.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition, first printing of this collection of short stories from Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, and William Maxwell. First edition, first printing. A collection of short stories from Jean Stafford, an American short story writer and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; John Cheever, an American short story writer and novelist; Daniel Fuchs, an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist; and William Maxwell, an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. With each writer selecting recent works to appear side-by-side with the other authors' works. As writers they have very little in common other than being roughly the same age, but as readers they very much respect and enjoy each other's works. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small closed tear. Sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine. book.

1st edition of this important collection of short stories by four masters of the genre SIGNED BY JOHN CHEEVER on the half-title page Near fine/near fine (a lovely copy).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by DANIEL FUCHS on ffep: "With all good wishes to Dan M----, by now a good friend, 3000 miles away. Dan Fuchs 1/21/84." Also SIGNED by WiILLIAM MAXWELL on a bookplate before his story 'The Trojan Woman'. Also SIGNED by JOHN CHEEVER on bookplate before his story 'The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well' (Cheever's signature is in light green ink). 5 stories by Stafford; 4 stories by Cheever and 3 each by Fuchs and Maxwell. Covers rubbed with light soiling; page yellowing and small stains and foxing on front pastedown and end page. Tape reinforcement on title page at spine area. Price is intact on DJ flap but it is inked out). Unique item with three of four contributors signatures present. Very scarce Fuchs signature. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.