Book Prefaces, First Edition (57 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Softcover Edition. A Book Of Prefaces. With footnote by Sinclair Lewis. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1941. 9 ½ x 6 ¼ inches. Original edition. 94 pages. Original printed wraps, very good condition, no owner's name, corner bumped, small newspaper stain on pp.85-85. Prefaces found in Limited Editions Club publications, by: Van Wyck Brooks, G. K. Chesterton, Bernard De Voto, Clifton Fadiman, Andrew Maurois, Christopher Morley, J. B. Priestley, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Swinnerton, and Carl Van Doren. ; 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 94 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing, c2003. first printing. 640pp, black and white illustrations, illuminated in red. 8vo. Uncreased spine, fine unread trade paperback.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First thus. Clean and tight w/ rem. mark to bottom page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st U.S. Edition. First US edition, hardcover, has a minor lean to the binding, small bumps to the spine ends, and a touch of shelfwear to the cover edges and corners, otherwise a solid, tight VG+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has mild bumps to spine ends and corners, a hint of sunning to the spine, and some faint rubbing with a few faint smudges to the covers. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing. Large octavo hardback. 640 pp. Fine condition in Fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Editor's and proofreaders' slip loosely enclosed.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Smudging to the fore-edge pages, and a faint ink stain to the bottom page edges. Corners slightly creased.; 637 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean pages, no tears or markings. Slight tear to top of spine, some bumping to board and DJ edges and corners. KRM/Literary Anthologies.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 94pp. With "A Footnote to these Prefaces" by Sinclair Lewis. Wrappers. Top of spine bumped, near fine. Prefaces by noted authors to 10 books published by the Limited Editions Club, including G.K. Chesterton (*Vanity Fair*), Andre Maurois (*Madame Bovary*), Bernard DeVoto (*Tom Sawyer*), and Christopher Morley (*The Life of Tristam Shandy, Gent.*). Likely an advertising piece; each preface ends with a complimentary description of the Limited Editions Club book it was pulled from, and the final leaf is an application form.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 94pp. With "A Footnote to these Prefaces" by Sinclair Lewis. Wrappers. Faint tidemark on bottom corner not affecting text, spine lightly toned, very good. Prefaces by noted authors to 10 books published by the Limited Editions Club, including G.K. Chesterton (*Vanity Fair*), Andre Maurois (*Madame Bovary*), Bernard DeVoto (*Tom Sawyer*), and Christopher Morley (*The Life of Tristam Shandy, Gent.*). Likely an advertising piece; each preface ends with a complimentary description of the Limited Editions Club book it was pulled from, and the final leaf is an application form.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. In wrappers. Near fine. Spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First American edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Octavo, pictorial boards. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with vertical crease to fore-edge of front flap. (#161854).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 94pp. With "A Footnote to these Prefaces" by Sinclair Lewis. Wrappers. Spine sunned and a light crease on the cover else fine. Prefaces by noted authors to 10 books published by the Limited Editions Club, including G.K. Chesterton (*Vanity Fair*), Andre Maurois (*Madame Bovary*), Bernard DeVoto (*Tom Sawyer*), and Christopher Morley (*The Life of Tristam Shandy, Gent.*). Likely an advertising piece; each preface ends with a complimentary description of the Limited Editions Club book it was pulled from, and the final leaf is an application form.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 94pp. With "A Footnote to these Prefaces" by Sinclair Lewis. Wrappers. Spine sunned else just about fine. Prefaces by noted authors to 10 books published by the Limited Editions Club, including G.K. Chesterton (*Vanity Fair*), Andre Maurois (*Madame Bovary*), Bernard DeVoto (*Tom Sawyer*), and Christopher Morley (*The Life of Tristam Shandy, Gent.*). Likely an advertising piece; each preface ends with a complimentary description of the Limited Editions Club book it was pulled from, and the final leaf is an application form.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Assumed First Edition. A new copy in hardcover with like dust jacket. No faults. A pristine copy. Includes errata slip.

Wraps. First edition. 24.5 x 16 cm. Sm 4to. 94 pages. Wrappers in original paper jacket AND the original worn mailing envelope. Laid-in letter from the LEC director and collector's notes. There is some toning to the front and rear endpapers where the dust jacket has lain. Top corner is bumped. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Dual text version with original preface printed in larger type and the commentary alongside it in smaller red italic type. A curious selection, with no obvious target readership. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

xvi+208pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 8vo. Blue paper-covered boards decorated in gilt. 640pp., with a purple ribbon bookmark bound in. Illustrated. Very Good Plus, with only a little dustiness to the head edge, where there is gentle bumping around the spine, in slightly lesser jacket, a little rubbed to extremities and with some scratching to the lower panel, but generally crisp. Loosely inserted are a cutting about the book and (two copies) a King Penguin press release for Gray's '1982, Janine'.

xvi+208pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Black and white illustrations. A fine copy. First edition.Signed by the editor/publisher to Australian graphic artist and scholar, Vane Lindesay.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing . Book and dust wrapper in near fine condition . Book has no inscriptions and is not an ex library book . Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Please see photographs which are of the actual book . Book is in transparent protective wrapper . All books shipped via Royal mail tracked and packed in bubble wrap and cardboard book sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£35.00). Includes erratum slip. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners and the odd small crease/rub to edges. Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages slightly tanned. Couple of very small marks to a few page edges. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st printing, unread, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription (nb- publisher's errata slip and the marker ribbon are both missing - otherwise book would be "as new") D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Heavy book so p&p costs tbc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. First Edition. First Edition. Black Cloth Hardcover, 283 pages, 7 3/4" tall, Very Good. Bottom edge and side boards have been crushed. Name on endpaper. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 2000. Bloomsbury Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1582340374. 672 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature England Literary Criticism World Literature. DESCRIPTION - From Beowulf to Shaw: a history of literature seen through the collected and annotated prefaces of major writers from all over the English-speaking world. Remember all the times you skipped the preface thinking you would get back to it, and never did? Here is an opportunity to read nothing but prefaces, and you'll be delighted to find what fun you've been missing. A unique work of literature which will amuse, amaze and inform both casual browsers and students, The Anthology of Prefaces is a work of monumental scholarship and idiosyncratic passion. It is the result of a lifetime's reading, prodigious research and years of creative labor from Scotland's grand old man of letters. Alasdair Gray has chosen and edited all of the prefaces presented in this impressive volume and has included commentary by some thirty other authors including James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, and Virginia Woolf. The Anthology of Prefaces offers an unusual and unprecedented look at literature, a treat for any reader. inventory #28102.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No DJ. Foxing to title and copyright pages, otherwise none. In archival cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 283 pp. Photos available upon request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.