Blind Boy, First Edition (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Compere, Janet (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1ST PRINTING STATED Trade softcover Book NEAR FINE clean copy no dustjacket issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A fine, fresh copy bound by a royal blue hardcover with golden inscription on the front cover and spine. Interior is crisp, clean, tightly-bound. Front cover shows a bit of minor spotting. 11"x8.75", 71 pages. A children's story that contains incredible, full-page illustrations, accompanying a beautiful sentimental story about a blind orphan boy and his encounters with a monster named Nessie. To access more children's books, go to Abebooks.com and search using our unique codeword CHLDBX, or visit our shop in Fort Worth. Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Janet Compere (illustrator). First Edition. Stated First Printing. Book has minor age toning to panels and pages with no writing or marking, 80 pages 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Second Printing. First Edition, Second Printing (Stated). Good only, lacking jacket, paper over boards with tan cloth spine and paper label- covers and label edgeworn and darkened; frontis detached but present, and frayed at fore-edge. Pages toned but unmarkd. Vintage Fiction; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 206 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: NF-/NF- (minor shelfwear, sticker on back cover). 1st Ed, 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by author on title page. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA. Signed by Author(s).

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st impression. With unclipped dust jacket, no inscription immaculate throughout. The Summer of 1959 in New England recalled by an eleven year old blind boy. Confined by his blindness and the chain link fence of his backyard Sullivan decides to break out and find his freedom which sets in motion a chain of events that would change his life forever.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, 4th printing. 261p. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Two small rips in the cloth near the bottom of the spine, and bottom corners lightly bumped. Spine slightly toned as well. Owner's signature on front pastedown and frontispiece lightly foxed; otherwise clean and tight (though binding is slightly cockeyed). Early printing of this novel by Harlem Renaissance author Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Dj is age darkened on back panel, upper corners of book bumped.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 168 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Half leather covers with moderate wear, especially to upper spine significantly chipped. Appears to have been bound as library volume, with plate in front end papers. Title worn away along spine. Foxing throughout, but otherwise seems clean and tight. Record # 2231518.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Slim, tall 4to.71pp. Beautiful First Printing with full number sequence. #873 of 1,000 copies printed of this limited "Collector's Edition". Square, tight and clean throughout with just a small bump to the heel. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust jacket,($49.95 on the rear panel), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by Anderson, who wrote the story and did the artwork, on the limitation page. A gorgeous collectible copy of a fairly uncommon title. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lecher, Robert E. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition with linen backed boards covered in paper with a brown overall design on a greenish tan back round. The back round is sun faded, as evidenced by a blue rectangle on the back cover where something was apparently laid on top of the book, and prevented fading beneath. Paper title label on the spine with a couple of chips along the top edge. Very slight lean, and corner wear on the covers. First and second printings before publication, published in August of 1923. Scarce edition. Tissue covered frontis, a fantasy art drawing in blue, of a Bow-Boy sitting on a fountain pedestal. Made into a film of the same name. Antiquarian. 261 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Yong Hwan Kim (illustrator). First Edition. Au Sung wants to be a storyteller when he grows up. He meets Kim Lee, the blind storyteller, who lives in a cave and they exchange stories. Illustrated by YONG HWAN KIM. Hardback: dj (price cut), slightly worn on spine tips and corners, a few marks, colour pictorial boards (as dj), foredge and some internal foxing, else vg. 12mo, 93pp.

8vo, pp. [iv], 36; disbound. First edition. First performed at Drury Lane in December 1807.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Locher, Robert E. (illustrator). First Edition. 262 pp, fiction. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. textured beige cloth backed spine, with paper lable laid on, and blue-red designed paper boards. In glassine wrappern 'In full agreement with George Barrow's remark that "nobody would call a book a novel if he could call it anything else," Mr. Van Vechten prefers to describe this work, the action of which passes in New York, 1922, and the hero of which is the god Eros, as "a cartoon for a stained-glass window." He begs his readers to imagine the attitudes of his characters, now sketched rudely in black and white, as they will appear when clothed in their final brilliant and luminous colors. The book is not "romantic" or "realistic" or "life" or "art." Assuredly it is not "fantasy" or "satire." The author has sworn before a notary public that his only purpose in creating THE BLIND BOW-BOY was to amuse. Readers, therefore, are especially warned against the danger of comparing this work with other books, written, apparently, in a somewhat different form, for it should be obvious that no purpose, beyond that just noted, actuated its construction, and no ideas are concealed beneath its surface.' Size: Small Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Aug 1923 1st edition in decorated boards, inscribed (which always means to a particular person) by the author on the ffep in the month of publication. Spine a little tilted, fraying on cover, title label on spine partially gone, Locher illustration fully separated from binding, separation on title page, one corner fold, pages tanned, for all that, text clean, binding not tight but still good. Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). 1st ed. Octavo in sand-colored cloth spine with original printed paper spine label, colored geometric paper-backed boards, in mylar wrap, deckled edges [8], 261, [3] p. (last 3 p. blank), [1] leaf of col. plates; 20 cm. Handsome contemporary owner signature of one Henry Carter to front free endpaper. About very good(-) to good(+). Edgerwear to bottom edge, slightly bumped corners; owner signature to front end paper, small damp stain above frontispiece, otherwise very clean. Spine label chipped at edges. Very slight roll to binding else tight,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, signed / inscribed by author on the fep. A very solid copy - the spine paste on label is in fine condition, bold black print, very little fading. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally rubbed and soiled, loss at the top edge, small chips at the bottom. Quarter beige cloth with patterned paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, green top stain, clean internally. Van Vechten's entertaining novel narrated by Eros as a cartoon for a stained-glass window.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover. Writing on front endpaper. Contains illustrated ads in rear of book. Text clean. Some brown spots on pages. Corners on cover rubbed and bent. Spine ends frayed. Minor spine lean. Black embossed design on cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robert E. Locher (illustrator). 1st Edition. 261 pages. Jacket toned, stained, chipped, and with loss mid-spine (not price clipped). Strip of toning to free endpapers. No inscriptions; binding sound. 7.75 x 5.5 inches.

Outer leaves sl. browned & marked, tear in title margin repaired. Disbound & sl. cut down. Nicoll states that the first edition was in 1807 but as the play appeared on 1st December the text may well have been dated 1808.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red/green on white illus. bds. with geometric design, bkst. linen with art nouveau lettering, design on pasted paper label. Frontis. with tissue overlay. 261pp.

Disbound. Nicoll states that the first edition was in 1807 but as the play appeared on 1st December the text may well have been dated 1808.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 261 pages; VG/None; quarter ecru cloth binding, boards in red and green decorated paper; spine unmarked; mild shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; mild soiling to spine; upper edge dyed green; inscribed by Van Vechten at front free endpaper; pages clean; CX consignment. 1347982. Special Collections - Downstairs. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robert E. Locher (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover toning long tear large chip from bottom of spine. publisher's linen-backed decorated boards with printed paper label on spine.

First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author, Carl Van Vechten printed on Borzoi all rag paper. With an illustration by Robert E. Locher. Near fine with some sunning to boards and a light cup mark on the front cover without dust jacket.

Unbound. Condition: Fair. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, 30, [1]pp. Front wrap detached and chipped, old paper repairs in the text, thus only fair. The front wrap bears an engraving of Bethune. A promotional piece for the young piano prodigy who, without formal training, could play over 5000 compositions by ear. Includes several poems, presumably composed by Bethune.

First edition, trade issue, this copy with the authorial inscription, "Inscribed for [?]Ethel Dill by Carl Van Vechten, October 5, 1923" on the front the endpaper. There was also a signed limited issue of 100 numbered copies. "The Blind Bow-Boy is a masterpiece of camp, written decades before the term and concept came into existence, and it sealed Van Vechten's hero status to a small but discerning group of gay, literary-minded cosmopolitan men. Van Vechten was one of the first cultural figures to draw New York's gay subculture into mainstream visibility, leading ultimately to the so-called pansy craze of the early 1930s" (Edward White, The Tastemaker: Carl van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, 2014, pp. 155). The "blind bow-boy" of the title is Cupid, an expression used by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet (2.4.15), where Mercutio says of Romeo: "the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft". Octavo. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's, New York, to rear pastedown. Frontispiece by Robert E. Locher, tissue-guard, title page printed in green and black. Original buff quarter cloth, printed paper label to spine as issued, red and green patterned sides. With dust jacket. Jacket spine very faintly toned, top edge slightly dust-darkened. A superb copy.