Intro Randall Jarrell (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. This copy is Good; the text is clear, bright, but with small marks and bits of marginalia; also previous owner's name top fep; binding is tight, but pages and edges show some wear. The front and back covers are Very Good; intact, including very good color and design, but small marks top rear, wear on spine, edges and corners. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). tight bindign; signed by previous owner; some discoloring due to age; spotting around fore-edge Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Milton Glaser, cover (illustrator). White cl. w. brown illus., backstr. blue and brown lettering. Dj. clipped, tear to bottom of spine, taped., sl. shelfworn. Xli, 527pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Salmon cloth, 339 pages, clean unmarked book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); light green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xx],145,[3]pp; portrait frontispiece of the author; illus. A Fine copy. Dustjacket withlight dust-soil, creases and tiny tears along extremities; Near Fine. Explores characters, themes, illustrations, and biographical elements throughout "The Gingerbread Rabbit", "The Bat-Poet", "Fly by Night", and "The Animal Family". [82607].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1966). 527pp. VG/VG copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean, gilt bright, top page edge grubby, internally excellent; dust jacket lightly edge worn, minor creasing to front top edge, now preserved in archival jacket protector. From the private library of British film director Jack Clayton (1921-1995), although no indication of provenance appears in the book.

hardcover, Condition: fair, New Directions, NY, c.1949, 12mo., cloth, 140pp., ex-lib.- peel marked spine where label was removed, stamps, chipped spine caps, owner's name from 1949,fair $.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Second American Edition. Octavo. 527 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact. White cloth stamped in brown and blue; dark topstain. Dust jacket shows a few brief chips and tears with some creasing along edges, with some faint staining to surface. Boards lightly shelfworn with shallow staining along edges. Glue has let go internally between spine cloth and backing and front board opens a bit shakily, but binding is still holding soundly. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown with contemporary gift inscription facing, else interior unmarked. Marxist Australian novelist Christina Stead's near-forgotten novel of familial torture, set in Washington, DC. Jarrell's introduction here brought the book its first wave of critical acclaim, and it was more recently brought back to the public eye after appearing on TIME's 100 Best English-Language Novels of 1923-2005 (sorry, Ulysses).