Gilfond Duff (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 294 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Covers show standard wear. Record # 608232.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 294 pages; 18 chapters with preface by author. Pages tight; minor page wear; no markings on pages; slight darkening and foxing on page edges; some foxing on end pages; Light brown linen-like hard covers with white paste-on title label on front and spine. Few tiny discoloration spots; slight shelf wear. Chapter headings include: The Sheriff of Cavendish; Bottle Days; Main Street Front and Wall Street Backing; The Good Fairy enters Politics; Patter and Thunder; The Vocal Cord; The President Sits; Hands Up!; The Master plays; The Farm Boy grows Up; Foreign Affairs; Mr. Kellog wins a Medal; The Sphinx propounds a Riddle; Of the People, etc. VERY RARE VINTAGE COPY.

NY: Vanguard Press, 1932. Copyright 1932. xi,294 pages. 8x5.5", cloth, paper labels, no dj. Gathering of anecdotes by news reporter. Spine label detached & inserted, else VG.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Quarto wrappers. xxxii, 129-255pp., xxxiii-lxiv. Scattered foxing, yapped edges worn and torn, good only. Contributions by H.L. Mencken, W.M. Walker, Wm. Allen Pusey, John Walker Harrington, Ruth Lechlitner, Duff Gilfond, Robert Joyce Tasker, Charles Angoff, Sadakichi Hartmann, Cornelia H. Dam, Idwal Jones, Emily Clark, Dewey M. Owens, Chloe Arnold, W.A.S. Douglas, Mary J. Elmendorf, Karl Schriftgiesser, and George Jean Nathan.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 294 pages. red stained top edge, untrimmed fore edge. Blue cloth covers with tipped in paper label on cover and spine. light edge wear, light foxing on bottom edge. Record # 408367.

Condition: Good. 1932. 293 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth.Deckled edged text block. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Rubbing and fading to boards. Bumping along edges of boards. Spine creases. Spine is slightly cocked. Fore edges are muffed. Ex-library copy with associated markings, stamps and pocket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st ed. , sl wear at spine edges Clean and tight copy; 294 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 294 pages, very subtle stain on backstrip. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Light shelf wear and yellowing to pages, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TWICE AS FOLLOWS: "FOR THE BLACHLYS, A BOOK FOR A BOOK. WISH MINE WERE A BETTER ME! FONDLY, DUFF. FEB. 1960" and "FOR MENDES AND FELIA, WITH THE SAME WISH GIVEN TO THE PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS. FONDLY, DUFF FEB. 1982". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Very good inside and out with no markings. In a fair dust jacket with wear and edge tears. This is a book for any doctor's library. See pictures for further description.