Published by Alfred A. Knop, 1998
ISBN 10: 0676970486 ISBN 13: 9780676970487
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Alfred A Knop, 1963
Seller: Lot O'Books, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. ***GOOD CONDITION***CLEAN PAGES***EX-LIBRARY stamps stickers/marked out name, moderate edge wear, stamp on top/side/bottom,sticker remained on side of book & on inside of title page. We specialize in non-fiction books. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Published by Alfred A Knop, 1963
Seller: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Enlarged edition, 1963. Very good hardcover in green cloth, no dust jacket. Unmarked, bright and clean with square and tight binding. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.
Published by Alfred A Knop, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375410392 ISBN 13: 9780375410390
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First US Edition. Type: Ex-Library First American Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal library stamps, in Very Good Condition. Clean, otherwise unmarked book, tight and solid binding, pages in Fine Condition. A compelling memoir by a young Chinese journalist who, in the 1980s, wrote a script for a TV series that probed the depths of Chinese beliefs and values so deeply that it stirred an intellectual debate on China-he was a leader of the democratic movement in China. Then, havIng survived the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he became one of the regime's five most wanted criminals and was smuggled out of China. After two years he was able to have his family brought to America. After four years in America, thinking the worst was behind them, a terrible car accident brought personal tragedy. An extraordinarily moving memoir. 329 pages. 7.8" x 5.4". 2001, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Published by Alfred A Knop, 1997
ISBN 10: 0375400648 ISBN 13: 9780375400643
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Type: Hardback First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. In red half cloth w/silver titles, black boards, pristine condition. A close-up view of how things work and how things don't work at the highest levels of government, by Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary who many consider the best Labor Secretary in US history. He writes of those in Washington with hard heads and soft hearts and those exactly the opposite; of career bureaucrats who make Washington run and the politicians who sometimes make it stop. And of all things Washington. 338 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1997, Alfred A Knop, New York.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 067945456X ISBN 13: 9780679454564
Seller: 4 THE WORLD RESOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is taped to the inside of the covers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages.
Published by Alfred A Knop, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375413014 ISBN 13: 9780375413018
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar jacket cover. 6.5" x 9.5" tall. 462 pages. B/W photos. Very nice volume in gray half cloth w/silver titles, grey boards, in immaculate condition. Known to readers of magazines, listeners of the radio, loves of the theatre, readers of books--his play "The Time of Your Life" won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award. His writing was a mixture of old-world suffering and new world optimism. Here is his full scale biography, from the immigrant boy and his lonely orphanage years to an internationally acclaimed American writer. 462 pages w/Notes and Index. 8vo. 2002, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, 1989
ISBN 10: 039491936X ISBN 13: 9780394919362
Seller: Second Chance Books, Independence, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light corner rubbing, INSCRIBED by author on title page. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, 1966
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning and writing on the front pastedown. Good DJ with some tears, toning and marks.
Published by Alfred A. Knop - New-York , New Perspectives on European History, 1988
Seller: Librairie Philoscience, Malicorne sur Sarthe, France
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few black and white text-figures 1st edition paperback, 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's green printed wrappers, illustrated by an endgraving In-8 1 vol. - 288 pages Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Acknowledgments, Contents, xii, Text, 276 pages - Introduction - 1. Laying claim to an audience: the first prophets of the new science : The social context of Copernicanism - Galileo's confrontation with the Church - The effects of Galileo's condemnation - The danger of Naturalism and Enthusiasm - The social utility of science - The Baconian vision - Science in elite culture - 2. The social meaning of Cartesianism from the self to nature, and back to the state : Skepticism and Naturalism - Gassendi - Beeckman and the mechanical philosophy in the Netherlands - Cartesianism - The spread of Cartesianism - 3. Science in the crucible of the English revolution : Bacon and the Puritans - The impact of the Revolution - The reaction against sectarian radicalism - Hobbes - The Anglican origins of modern science - Isaac Newton and Restoration Cambridge - The revolution of 1688-1689 and the Newtonian synthesis - 4. Crisis and revolution : the Newtonian Enlightenment : The Threat of Absolutism - The failure of the old learning - Liberal Christianity - The power of science - Spinoza and Spinozism - The new culture of the lay elite - 5. The cultural origins of the first industrial revolution : The English Enlightenmen - Science and the industrial revolution - The spread of scientific education - The scientific societies - John Smeaton - Radical tendencies within industrial culture - 6. Scientific education and industrialization in Continental Europe : Science and the decline of the Dutch republic - Belgium - France - Italy - Thinking mechanically - 7. Sciences in the industrial revolution : The application of mechanical knowledge - Bristol, an early example of the application of mechanical science - The politics of mechanical applications - Bibliography, glossary, index light discoloration on the spine (sun-faded), else near fine copy, no markings, inside is clean 320.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1948
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. DOCTOR FAUSTUS is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul--and the ability to love his fellow man.Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius--both national and individual--and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist. Fine (with previous owner's booplate affixed to front board inside uner flap), in black cloth boards, without dust cover. BUND.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1009
ISBN 10: 0375401598 ISBN 13: 9780375401596
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Presents the first in a series of novels featuring David Talbot, a fledgling vampire, who sets out to become a chronicler in Paris, where he meets PANDORA, a two-thousand-year-old vampire. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} BUND.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2012
ISBN 10: 0307958086 ISBN 13: 9780307958082
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. LIONEL ASBO, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love (and to protect a family secret that could be the death of him). But just as he begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, his uncle?once again in a London prison?wins £140 million in the lottery and upon his release hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and "poet." Strangely, however, Lionel's true nature remains uncompromised while his problems, and therefore also Desmond's, seem only to multiply.Author of THE INFORMATION, NIGHT TRAIN, VISITING MRS. NABOKOV AND OTHER EXCURSIONS, YELLOW DOG, and EXPERIENCE: A Memoir, among others. As new,first Americaqn edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} . L121.
Published by NY Alfred A. Knop;f.1982 first edition., 1982
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. cloth hard cover.tall 8vo.illustrated.228 PP. very good copy.light chipping in front cover very good dust Jacket.original price present.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, NY 10010, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0307263134 ISBN 13: 9780307263131
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This book, based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November, 2004, defines the term "active liberty" as a sharing of the nation's sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to a living and changing society rather than as an arsenal of rigid legal means for binding and restricting it, Justice Breyer argues that the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems. As new, first edition copy, in fine (albeit with one light abrasion to front cover) mylar-protected dust jacket. NF63.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0375403728 ISBN 13: 9780375403729
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF68.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0375402187 ISBN 13: 9780375402180
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Beginning with the Marx Brothers' family heritage and their youth in turn-of-the-century New York, we see Julius and his brothers Adolph and Leonard become Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. We go backstage as they develop their routines in vaudeville, on Broadway, and, finally, in Hollywood. Groucho's story unfolds against the backdrop of the changing world around him and his star-studded milieu, which includes other classic comic figures such as Charlie Chaplin and W. C. Fields, as well as great names like Ben Hecht, George Gershwin, and even T. S. Eliot. Kanfer delves into Groucho's complicated relationships with the people around him ? his failed marriages, his destructive behavior toward his children, his clashes with the self-indulgent Chico. The Brothers become the biggest movie stars in the world ? a success bitterly followed by slow decline as age, years of profligacy, and ego all catch up with them. Finally, we witness Groucho's extraordinary resurrection ? coming back from the career-dead to host the television quiz show You Bet Your Life, which cements his legendary status in American culture. Groucho Marx proved that comedy could be raucous, sophisticated, and wildly unexpected ? all at once. GROUCHO: raises the curtain on this icon of twentieth-century cynicism and irreverence in an authoritative, affectionate, and unsparingly honest look behind the cigar. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marred or price-clipped} A100.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2015
ISBN 10: 1101874996 ISBN 13: 9781101874998
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly?the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice?or is it revenge??becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington's corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico's drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera?and himself?that he always knew must happen. THE CARTELis a story of revenge, honor, and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men?and women?who wage it. Fine, first edition, second printing, in very good (matte cover is completely intact but shows wear at spine top and on flap creases), mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2021
ISBN 10: 0593318315 ISBN 13: 9780593318317
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. New,mint, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A112.
Published by Alfred A. Knop. New York., 2002
ISBN 10: 0375816011 ISBN 13: 9780375816017
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mostyn, D (illustrator). 1st Edition. Both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. Bought new, put in a box, and only opened just now. The number line goes to 1. $9.95 on the flap.
Published by New York: Alfred A. Knop, 1941
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. as pictured a First Edition very good condition hardcover, bright gilt spine , sunned edges , no dust jacket gently read clean , 566 pages. indexed.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2013
ISBN 10: 0307961710 ISBN 13: 9780307961716
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First U.S. Edition. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price clipped} L151.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1993
ISBN 10: 0679425136 ISBN 13: 9780679425137
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Basis of the 2016 Golden Globe-winning television miniseries directed by Susan Bier, and starring Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debecki, and Olivia Colman in the story of the night manager of a Cairo hotel who is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle. Le Carre himself wrote six of the series episodes and served as Executive Producer, and Hiddeston won the award for Best Performance by an Actor, as did Laurie and Colman for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M79.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 140004314X ISBN 13: 9781400043149
Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp. 227. book.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2014
ISBN 10: 0307959473 ISBN 13: 9780307959478
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Now, in this unsparing memoir, meticulously fair in its assessments, he takes us behind the scenes of his nearly five years as a secretary at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding, and often dissenting, voice for Obama; the ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers?his "heroes"?he developed on the job. In relating his personal journey as secretary, Gates draws us into the innermost sanctums of government and military power during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, illuminating iconic figures, vital negotiations, and critical situations in revealing, intimate detail. Offering unvarnished appraisals of Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Presidents Bush and Obama among other key players, Gates exposes the full spectrum of behind-closed-doors politicking within both the Bush and Obama administrations. He discusses the great controversies of his tenure?surges in both Iraq and Afghanistan, how to deal with Iran and Syria, "Don't Ask Don't Tell," Guantánamo Bay, WikiLeaks?as they played out behind the television cameras. He brings to life the Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid. And, searingly, he shows how congressional debate and action or inaction on everything from equipment budgeting to troop withdrawals was often motivated, to his increasing despair and anger, more by party politics and media impact than by members' desires to protect our soldiers and ensure their success. However embroiled he became in the trials of Washington, Gates makes clear that his heart was always in the most important theater of his tenure as secretary: the front lines. We journey with him to both war zones as he meets with active-duty troops and their commanders, awed by their courage, and also witness him greet coffin after flag-draped coffin returned to U.S. soil, heartbreakingly aware that he signed every deployment order. In frank and poignant vignettes, Gates conveys the human cost of war, and his admiration for those brave enough to undertake it when necessary. Duty tells a powerful and deeply personal story that allows us an unprecedented look at two administrations and the wars that have defined them. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. 618 pp, with Index. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} *Packed careully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in excellent condition. NF73A91/A78.
Published by Alfred A. Knop. New York., 2000
ISBN 10: 0679879269 ISBN 13: 9780679879268
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. States: "First American edition". The number line goes to 1. $19.95 on the flap.
Published by Alfred A. Knop, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0375411356 ISBN 13: 9780375411359
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. White jacket with black and white picture on the front, titles bellow the picture and on the spine. The jacket is clean and lightly rubbed on the corners, it is in a protective case. The hardcover has white boards and brown spine with silver titles, it is very lightly rubbed on the corners, no other signs of wear. The inside is unmarked. The binding is tight. The pages are clean and clear. Deckle side edge.
Published by Alfred A. Knop. New York., 1996
ISBN 10: 0679879242 ISBN 13: 9780679879244
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The book has a small red dot, remainder mark, on the top edge of the text block, otherwise both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. States: "First Edition". The number line goes to 1. The dust jacket is like new. $20.00 on the flap.
Published by Alfred A. Knop. New York., 1997
ISBN 10: 0679879250 ISBN 13: 9780679879251
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The book has a small red dot, remainder mark, on the top edge of the text block, otherwise both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. States: First American Edition". The number line goes to 1. The dust jacket is like new. $20.00 on the flap.
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Published by Alfred A. Knop, New York, 1925
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in half-calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd.Black/gilt spine label. Initials 'R.K.' on the front leather corner. Ex-libris of Richard Kayne on the front pastedown ( pseud. of William Sydney Kuttner, composer/musician) Brown cloth boards, Front hinge a little worn/weak.A clean, tight copy with some 'tanning' to the page edges.First and Second Printings Before Publications (stated) 1925 on title and copyright page. No insc. 284pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.