Stuart Jesse Hilton (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gloss pictorial boards have light wear. Prior owner name on sheet edges. Marginalia in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

First edition (per publisher's statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [6], 282 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket lightly soiled, spine panel toned with heel nicked and 1.5cm chip at head; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green cloth, spine's gilt lettering still vibrant with ends bumped. Minor soiling to fore-edge; small stain upon top edge. Laid-in between pages 30-31 are two newspaper clippings: {#1} biographical article regarding Jesse Stuart from The Herald-Dispatch [Huntington, West Virginia] dated June 30, 1969 and {#2} clipping presumably from same newspaper announcing Jesse Stuart book-signing for COME GENTLE SPRING for Saturday, June 21 [1969] at Anderson-Newcomb, Huntington, WV department store. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket with Stuart's very personalized ten-line black felt tip ink signed inscription dated for June 21, 1969 on the front free endpaper.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [8], 273, [2] pages. Hardcover. Lacks dust jacket. Black spine scuffed at ends; light olive boards slightly soiled. Some toning and light staining to text block's top edge and fore-edge; several leaves with some light staining and creased corners; remnant impressions of erased pencil check marks on Contents page; pencil markings within short story "The wind blew east" (pages 84-96) - no other such markings readily apparent but might be found upon a more careful perusal; overall interior pages remain clean. Binding is firm. Author's warm nine-line ink inscription "To Vallie Tinsley White | fellow teacher . . . | Jesse Stuart | Oct. 12, 1958" on front free endpaper.

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [2], 317 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; some sunning/fading to spine; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Brownish-purple boards with bright gilt stamping to spine. Foxing to text block's top edge; faint stain to bottom edge. Author's fourteen-line black felt tip ink inscription on front free endpaper - first six lines to a Tupelo, Mississippi resident and signed "Boo" (evidently as a familiar term of endearment) with concluding eight-line postscript in same ink and hand formerly signed "Jesse Stuart | June 4th 1970." Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. Else a near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket.

20 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. Blue covers; horizontal fold at center to booklet; front cover features Kentucky map and picture of Stuart's autobiography "The Year of My Rebirth." Author's five-lie ink inscription "To Mrs. Archie H. White | . . . | Jesse Stuart | Greenup, Ky. Oct. 21 1958" on front cover's verso. Some foxing and slight soiling to inside covers and interior leaves. Binding staples rusted but holding. Text divided into four sections titled as "The Life Of Jesse Stuart;" "Honors And Awards;" "Published Works Of Jesse Stuart;" and "How To Get His Books." Double-column text and b/w photos. Uncommon Jesse Stuart publication for which OCLC locates physical copies at only twelve member institutions.