For Authors Only by Kenneth Roberts, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Without dust jacket. First Edition. Sold as a good original reading copy only. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 446 pages, decorative blue cloth. A good, generally clean, original hard cover first edition (stated) with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the fore-corner tips the backstrip cloth at top and bottom of the spine; with foxing at the endpapers; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with soiling to the bottom fore-edge. Lacking the dust jacket.

446pp. + ads 8vo Linecut illustrations by Robert R. Haberstock Blue cloth First edition so stated Ex-library, light cover rubbing and wear: VG/no dj.

hardcover. First Edition. A VG copy (no Dust Jacket) in which the front hinge is broken for 3/4 of its length. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Clarence Wheelwright, who knows we State of Mainers aint as gloomy as we look. With the affectionate regard of his friend Kenneth Roberts. Christmas, 1937." In addition, Roberts' personal bookplate is pasted to the front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Later printing. Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Later printing. Very Good+/Good+. Later printing of the First Edition, inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with blind-stamped diamond and star decoration on cover and spine, bright gold anchor, quill and telescope decoration on cover, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (a few tiny water spots to top page edges). Inscribed by the author: "For Clarence L. Sibley with the Very Best Wishes of Kenneth Roberts - Kennebunkport, ME., July 10th, 1939." Small tasteful bookplate of famous Robertson collector (Comstock) on front fixed endpaper. 446 pgs. Published October 2, 1936 (fourth printing). Dustjacket is not price clipped, has shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edge, small surface scrape on spine well below author's name (smaller than a dime), two small pieces of tape on rear spine fold, closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. First printing. PON to FEP, otherwise a NF copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price of $2.50 intact on the front flap. Inscribed and signed by the author on the FEP. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Linecut Illustrations by Robert E. Haberstock. Octavo. Front flyleaf has small, faint surface abrasion else a fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several small nicks and tears with a faint, small tape mend. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD+. STATED FIRST EDITION. AUTHOR'S SIGNED BOOKPLATE: "FOR OSWALD TRAIN WITH BEST WISHES." ALSO SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO FFEP. CHIP TO UNCLIPPED DJ. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Very good+ in dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with bright gilt stamped on the spine and on the front board. There is slight wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and the end sheets show minor foxing due to a reaction to the glue used in binding. There is also a prior owner's small name tag on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with several closed tears and related creases at the ends of the spine area and at the upper and lower edges of the front panel. Signed and inscribed "With Best Wishes" on the first free end paper by the author. 446 pages followed by four pages of ads for other books by Roberts. Very scarce in dust jacket as only 5,603 copies of the first printing were produced.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of For Authors Only by Kenneth Roberts. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 446pp, [4]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, gilt design and blind stamped details on front board. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, lightly bumped spine, a near fine example. Top edge dyed green. Bookseller's label affixed to rear pastedown endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to spine, light wear to flap folds and edges, shelf wear. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With the best wishes of Kenneth Roberts." Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) wrote historical fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history.