Preface Matthew Bruccoli (13 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Scribner PB Fic ed. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fine in glossy wraps. Light owner stamp inside front cover & top pagination edge else bright, snug & unmarked; unread trade paperback.

Hardcover. xxviii, 370p., hardbound in openweave blue cloth boards and enclosed in the dust jacket. As for the book itself, find light streaky foxing to top edge and one or two flecks to fore-edge, else perfectly sound, clean and unmarked; and as for the dust jacket, expect mild edgewear, faintly sunned spine panel, and an irritating little sticker at the tail. Bruccoli : "The present text is an offset facsimile of the first printing .(London, Martin Secker, 1924). No editorial alterations of any kind have been made." He states that materials toward a definitive edition exist, and cites university holdings of early Lawrence typescripts.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by TINGLEY,JANET DESIGN (illustrator). Book Club Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; SILVER TITLES ON DARK BLUE PAPER COVERS. ; 778pg heavy pages; Last of the Belles; Majesty; At Your Age; The Swimmers; Two Wrongs; First Blood; Emotional Bankruptcy; The Bridal Party; One Trip Abroad; The Hotel Child; Babylon Revisited; A New Leaf; A Freeze Out; Six of One; What a Handsome Pair; Crazy Sunday; More Than Just a House; Afternoon of an Author; Financing Finnegan; The Lost Decade; Boil Some Water - Lots of It; L.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; SILVER TITLES ON DARL BLUE PAPER COVERS. ; 778pg heavy pages; Last of the Belles; Majesty; At Your Age; The Swimmers; Two Wrongs; First Blood; Emotional Bankruptcy; The Bridal Party; One Trip Abroad; The Hotel Child; Babylon Revisited; A New Leaf; A Freeze Out; Six of One; What a Handsome Pair; Crazy Sunday; More Than Just a House; Afternoon of an Author; Financing Finnegan; The Lost Decade; Boil Some Water - Lots of It; L.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sewn light grey printed wrappers, small slender 8vo., (14) pages. One of 150 copies printed on a Washington press from Bembo and Spartan Bold types by Kim Merker on specially made Wookey Hole Mill paper. A clean, near fine copy with a faint circular stain to the upper cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968. 268 pgs. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The force and beauty of H. D. s prose brings the stories in Palimpsest brightly to life, particularly in her sense of place: Rome about 75 B. C. , post-World War I London and Egypt at the time of the Tutankhamon tomb excavations. The use of the palimpsest motif gives the reader the impression that one story has been superimposed on the other ad that the protagonist is always the same woman -in essence H. D. Herself. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Thick first edition/printing with book and jacket each in As New, unread condition from the original publisher's warehouse! Very uncommon thus - great stories.

First Edition. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all edges red. In the red faux leather slipcase. Gilt dulled to spine. Light bumping to slipcase. A near fine copy.

Hardcover. Collector's Edition. Octavo, xiv, 428 pages. In Near Fine condition. Bound in teal genuine leather, with green, black, and gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling; text block edges gilt, with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A. 1407124. Special Collections.

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Richard Sparks (illustrator). Special content of this edition is copyrighted 1991. 428 pages. Full blue leather covers with raised spine bands and gilt, black and teal lettering/decoration. Silk morie end leaves and sewn in book mark. All edges of text are gilded. There are a few scuffs and scratches seen on the lower and upper edges of the text block. Volume is otherwise Fine.

First Edition. Only Printing, one of 150 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); light brown stiff paper wrappers; all edges untrimmed; [16]pp. Very light tanning, else Near Fine. Written in 1925 for Pottsville Journal. "'A Cub Tells His Story' is the only surviving example of his apprentice journalism. The file of the paper for those years has been lost, and we have this article because somebody heeded his statement that 'This, you know, may one day be a valuable story" (see preface). Published two years prior, Bruccoli's bibliography on O'Hara includes "Journalism / 1924-1926 Reporter for the Pottsville Journal. No file of the paper for these years has been located". (see Bruccoli, John O'Hara: A Checklist, Appendix: Compiler's Notes). BRUCCOLI (1978) A35.1. [84851].