Games by Morris Wright, First Edition (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback. Signed/inscribed by author on front endpaper. Minimal wear to edges and surface. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. One of 1500 copies in wrappers. Review copy, slip laid in. A novel written during 1951-52 and never submitted for publication. Themes and characters reappear in The Field of Vision and Ceremony in Lone Tree. Spine and edges of covers slightly faded. Size: 8vo.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with a limited signed hardcover edition. A novel written in 1951-52, but never submitted for publication before. One of only 1500 copies in wrappers. 113 pp plus colophon. Near fine in greige wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. The back jacket blurb for this 164 page novel tells us that the idea for the work first occured in 1951. (It tookits time getting to print.) Its themes are revisted in two related works `._._.Vision.' (1956) and `Ceremony ._._. ' (1960). Read more about : bellhop's evil pocket, Mrs. Tabori, Clarke Street car, plastic ice cubes, spats, braces, silver-headed cane, and Hyman Kopfman. UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapperi s grey blue with white lettering. Long, empty hallway on cover. Tight in binding. No names, Minimal soiling. Lots of edge wear. Very decent reading copy. QUote (p. 78) : " The Colonel sat there, the phone in his hand, until he noticed that his wife had come back into the room to look at him. When he raised his eyes she drew her robe closed at the front. Nothing personal, however, merely a reminder that ._._._. . ' Size: 8vo.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers. One of 1500 copies in paper wrappers.

Condition: Good. 8vo., 155 pp., Very Good+, Trade Paperback with sun-fading along spine. Signed & dated inscription by Morris on title page. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NUMBER 115 OF 300 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Signed by Author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 113 pages. Number 162 from an edition of 300 copies. A slim novel from this accomplished writer and photographer. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with a tiny spot to the fore edge and in a near fine acetate dust jacket with the typical rubbing. Signed by Morris on the colophon page. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth spine with papered boards (24 cm.). Copy number 123, hand-numbered to colophon, along with Wright's signature. Preserved in pristine condition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.83. Octavo (24.25cm); printed paper-covered boards and decorative cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-113,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A short novel written during the winter-spring of 1951-52, never submitted for publication. MORROW & COONEY 116b. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED BY MORRIS; COPY "B" OF 26 LETTERED COPIES FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. Signed by Author(s).

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1972. First edition. Included are all three issues of the first edition: 1.) Copy 'F' of 26 lettered copies, signed by Morris. Boards, blue cloth spine. Original glasine wrapper. Fine. / 2). Copy 129 of 300 numbered copies, signed by Morris. Boards, cloth spine. Original glasine wrapper. Fine. / 3). Original wrappers lettered in red and blue-grey. Small pencil mark on page edges, but a fine copy. One of 1500 copies. / The three versions of the Black Sparrow first edition, all in fine condition, as one lot.