Meriwether James Editor (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good condition brown-boards hard back with an unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and a three-inch (closed) cellophane-taped tear on the back, but is now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.

First edition thus (some material previously published in The Mississippi Quarterly #26, Summer 1973 issue). x, 166 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. Brown dust jacket, 7cm closed tear descending from front panel's top left; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Beige cloth, spine decorated with vibrant gilt stamped title block and black lettering. Light brown top edge and endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a good+ dust jacket. Features a "collection ⦠[of] texts, criticism, and biographical studies of a number of the unpublished writings of William Faulkner" with the following: Editor's Foreword; "William Faulkner's 'Marionettes'" by Noel Polk; "The Elmer Papers: Faulkner's Comic Portraits of the Artist" by Thomas L. McHaney; "A Census of Manuscripts and Typescripts of William Faulkner's Poetry" by Keen Butterworth; "Faulkner on the Literature of the First World War" by Michael Millgate; "Faulkner and the World War II Monument in Oxford" by James B. Meriwether; "New Material for Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'" by Patrick Samway, S.J.; "Faulkner's Typescripts of 'The Town'" by Eileen Gregory; "William Faulkner's Own Collection of His Books in 1959" by James B. Meriwether; "'Hong Li' and 'Royal Street:' The New Orleans Sketches in Manuscript" by Noel Polk; plus five essays by William Faulkner - "And Now What's to Do;" "Nympholepsy;" "An Introduction to 'The Sound and the Fury;'" "A Note on 'A Fable;'" and "Faulkner's Speech of Acceptance for the Andres Bello Award, Caracas, 1961." {LitCrit Shelf #3} ISBN 0878050515.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three articles of papers on William Faulkner presented at the 1971 conference.35 pp. Softcover.

Hardcover. Condition: In quite good condition. First Impression. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed beige-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 165. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. Text in French. Good Plus, internally clean, solid paperback with foxing to the covers. #.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Special Issue. This softcover book is square and tight. The pages are clean, with no markings or folds. The wrappers are bright with no damage to the points and no folds or creases to the spine. The condition is As New. Not ex-library. No remainder mark.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 70 pages. A posthumously released book edited by Meriwether who also provides a note on the text. Features illustrations of wood engravings by John DePol. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight sunning to the edges and the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine gilt. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Small round red sticker on front free end page.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Summer 1975, 132 pages. 8 Articles about William Faulkner and 4 book reviews on Faulkner's titles. VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. British edition. Blue boards with black lettering on spine. Slight rubbing along edges. Teal dust jacket with black lettering on cover and spine. Jacket is price clipped and wrapped in Mylar. Mild soiling to back of jacket. Slight creasing along edges, small tear on bottom edge of back of jacket. Minor wear along hinges. Tight binding and clean interior. Top edge of text block has some foxing that does not extend inside. This posthumously published book collects nonfiction pieces from the latter part of the career of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, widely considered one of America's greatest authors.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Lafayette: Purdue, 1963. First edition. 8vo. Trade paperback, pp. 207-288. Special edition dedicated to the study of Joyce Cary, including a checklist of criticism. Appears unread. Near fine.

cloth, dust jacket. Faulkner, William (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 166 pages. A volume in the Mississippi Quarterly Series in Southern Literature. Frontispiece. Foreword by the editor. Essays by nine scholars, with footnotes, on various aspects of Faulkner's literary career. Excerpts from Faulkner's writings. Dust jacket torn near bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st. Bound in publisher's original tan quarter cloth and red cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in black. Facsimile of the ribbon typescript copy. Also includes facsimile of two holograph manuscript of "NOTES", typescript verso of "NOTES", two holograph manuscript pages of text, one page word count, and preliminary typescript. Endpapers decorated with a reproduction of a holograph map of Yoknapatawpha County by William Faulkner. Previous owners name in ink on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall. Exceptional copy of the first English edition (jacket has faintest hints of wear). Contains 11 essays and 14 speeches in all, plus selected correspondence, 1927-1960; also contains 3 introductions to books and 3 book reviews (the latter including the review of Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'). Editor's preface and notes; includes bibliographical references.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Fine. First British Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New, save a whisper of touch to the exptremities at the spine. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. x, 166pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition.

Condition: Very Good. 1967 reprint. 8vo. Blue cloth, dark blue lettering to spine. Tanned edges, else, clean and tight. In VG original DJ - price-clipped, light edgewear and toning. A nice copy.