John Cheever Daniel Fuchs (31 results)

Condition: Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956)., (1956). Good. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in green boards backed with a yellow cloth spine, titled in black on the spine, in a printed color decorated dust wrapper. The book's covers are bumped & soiled. The edges and head & tail of the soiled dust jacket are chipped with wear to the folds. [viii] & 309 pages. The endpapers and pastedowns are soiled. Good. First edition. …

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: 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. 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.

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: 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.

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

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.…

1st edition. [8], 309, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Includes Cheever's baseball story, "The National Pastime" VG+ (small neat pos to ffep)/VG (spine panel sunned). Yellow cloth binding with olive-green paper-wrapped boards. Yellow topstain. Dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good dj. 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. Illustrated by (dj design) Ronald Clyne (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 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: Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 309. Original publisher's red boards lettered gilt at spine. Bright yellow dust jacket. Publisher's file copy from the archive at Gollancz with their neat stamp, reading 'archive copy' on the title page. Original wraparound band states, "This collection has real importance - V. S. Pritchett." Very good in slightly used, close very good dust jacket, with a 4cm closed tear at the front lower spine hinge.…

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. 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. 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. None (illustrator). 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).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Rubbing on panel edges.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.