Blind Boy, Signed (12 results)

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).

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).

Stapled. Condition: Good. No date. Minor wear. Dedication by author to inside cover. Sold in aid of Birmingham Youth Clubs. Signed by Author(s).

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: Good. Limited Edition. Book measures 24x16cm, 260pp. This edition is one of 100 copies on borzoi all rag paper signed by the author and numbered 1 to 100. Bound in original publishers quarter cloth, green paper backed boards, green title label on spine. Binding with wear, scuffed corners, some loss on head and tail of spine, dust dirt marked. Binding in good condition. Internally, many pages unopened, pages clean. A very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Book measures 24x16cm, 260pp. Housed in publishers slipcase, slipcase with wear. This edition is one of 100 copies on borzoi all rag paper signed by the author and numbered 1 to 100. Bound in original publishers quarter cloth, green paper backed boards, green title label on spine. Binding with minor wear, scuffed corners, light dust dirt marked. Binding in good condition. Internally, pages clean. A very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).

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).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 261 pages. Borzoi Pocket Book Edition, published February 1925. Simply inscribed: "Reg from Carl" free endpaper verso. No other inscriptions. Light rubbing to cloth; slightly cocked; textblock edges foxed. Binding is sound. 6.9 x 4.75 inches. Inscribed by Author(s).

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.

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.

Fourth Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); rebound in hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [viii],261,[1]pp, with a pictorial frontispiece by Robert E. Locher. Inscribed by the author in green ink on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Amos T. French Jr by Carl Van Vechten / December 28, 1937 / New York." Modest wear to extremities, faint dampstaining along lower board edges, with some rubbing and dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good. Satire of New York society, described as "Frothy" (Roger Austen, Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America, p.39). The recipient, Amos Tuck French, Jr. (1901-1975), was the son of American banker and eventually vice president of the Manhattan Trust Company Amos Tuck French (1863-1941). HANNA 3614; YOUNG 2639. Signed.

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.