Dorp by Frieda Arkin (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. NICE, CLEAN COPY!

VG/VG. 360 pp. DJ rubbed. Shallow edge curling, creasing. Top page edges have small area of insect tracks. Spine slightly cocked, tight. Interior cream-colored, clean. No marks. Nice reading copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.60 inches.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First printing. 8 vo; brown cloth covered boards; 360 pp; illust. dj. author's first novel Very Good in Good + DJ; p.o.'s label inside front board; front of dj has some creases & light edge chipping; all else-clean, tight, & attractive; dj protected by new Mylar wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Printing. No dust jacket. A few marks on cover. Erase mark on front end page. Near Fine condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

First printing. Her first book, a novel set in a small town in upstate New York. NF/NF.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B0006CPB9C Hardback. First printing as stated on copyright page. No dustjacket; bound in dark brown boards with yellow lettering on spine; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($6.95 price intact). Published by The Dial Press, 1969. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with scratch on front bottom. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in very good dust jacket. First edition. *.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing, First Edition. And here's where it gets interesting: the book's signed and inscribed on the first front end paper to 'Bruce Hungerford.' It's not the most common name and I think there's a decent likelihood that this was the Austrialian-born pianist 'known for the majority of his career as Leonard Hungerford whose career was cut short by his death in a road accident in New York. In 1965 Leonard Hungerford changed his name to Bruce Hungerford.' You can read more about him in his Wikipedia profile and N.Y. Times obituary.The inscription is on the first front end paper. It reads 'To Bruce Hungerford, warmly Frieda Arkin.' There is what appears to be a blank price sticker underneath his last name (see photo). The Dorp was Frieda Arkin's first novel. Her work had been twice selected for Best American Short Stories and The Dorp received much critical acclaim (see below). Nevertheless, for the next 35 years, she turned her attention from writing fiction to raising a family and writing a series of cookbooks. In 2005 her novel Hedwig and Berti was published. About it the novelist Elinor Lipman wrote 'My new favorite novel. Characters and storytelling like this belong in the Fiction Hall of Fame, in the wing reserved for wry and sly masterpieces.' As you can see from the photos, the covers are in very good condition, very clean. The only imperfection I see is a little bit of light discoloration on parts of the bottom edges. The spine is slightly slanted forward, but the book is very solidly bound from cover to cover, and the pages are nicely tight throughout. They're also very clean. I'm scrolling through and not finding any instances of soiling. That includes the inside covers and end papers. The book is 360 pages long. I'm also not seeing any conspicuous creasing. There are no markings. No attachments. And with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The dust jacket is in very solid shape. There's light wear off the spine ends, a little color fading on the spine. There's a little crinkling off the front top edge and a closed tear near the top edge of the rear. The flaps look very good. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It'll be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. From Kirkus Reviews: 'Kuyper's Dorp is a vestigial Dutch community in upstate New York; under the "inherent changelessness" from side porch to cemetery is an obdurate narrowness of heart and mind. This is the impression Miss Arkin conveys with tenacious truth as ordinary people go about their business with watchful eyes and busy tongues. To introduce some of them--take Elizabeth Rust who is fighting childlessness and age and whose overly amiable husband Archie is accidentally killed on the road; or Doris Osterhout of the local Grand American Lunch whose opinions are solid as the virtues of her cooking; or J.C. Barrows, a widower who runs the newspaper by day but is a nightmare ridden nightwalker; or Evelyn Clancy, a stubborn alcoholic who insists "I know that my liver redeemeth" to the soulless, salvational minister Mackail; and on. Miss Arkin's novel, while never lapsing into the mundane, has a firm grasp of the prosaic texture of life and people which gives it a particularized consistency. From beginning to end she's self-evidently a writer of intelligent character and substantive conviction who makes few sentimental concessions to Our Town while retaining one's undiminished interest.' From the Dust Jacket: 'A town in upstate New York is the setting and the protagonist for this extraordinary first novel. Like a Bruegel painting, The Dork renders a particular community and landscape with such richness and truth of detail as to transcend its own limits of time and space--Kuyper's Dorp, the world Frieda Arkin has created, is the finest representation of an American town since Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First Printing 1969.