Points Compass by White E B, First Edition (34 results)

Hardback. Quarter black cloth over brown boards, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 240 pp. Owners name ffep only mark in book, binding solid, slight soiling to edges of text block. In unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket that shows chipping, three closed tears. Book condition VG in Good+ DJ. Binding: HB. Edition: Stated first.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 6 x 8 1/2", 240 pages. "One of the reasons he is so helplessly admired by his fellow writers that he has Chaucer's gift of making his sentences sound like a man talking." Near Fine (now in mylar sleeve).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, 1962. VERY GOOD hardcover book in GOOD mylar-protected, price-clipped dust-jacket. A chip on DJ's spine over author's last name. One inch chip at top of rear panel. Wear at spine ends. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. First Edition, First Printing.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xiv + 240pp; A bright copy in a shelf-worn d/w with small closed tear to top edge of d/w and edges slightly spotted; Internally bright and sound; Size: 8vo. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, stated. A very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 240 pp. Bound in black and brown, cloth and paper boards, in tan and black dust jacket. The dust jacket, price-clipped, has a few small closed tears along the top edge, and a toned rear panel. Paste downs beginning to fox. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good Hardcover, no dust jacket. Book has minor wear of spine ends, cover edges and corners, minor soiling covers, name on front endpaper, brown spotting endpapers and foredges. Clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Owner name; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Quarter-bound granite boards, 1st Edition. The inimitable essayist's letters published in the New Yorker throughout the 1950's are written with wit, candor and impeccable literary style, capturing the author's view to the idiosyncratic views of the east, north, west and south radius of mid-town Manhattan and his farm in Maine. xiv, 240 pp. POS, front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition. Black cloth spine on brown boards, clean and sharp, mild shelf wear to corners. Protected, clipped, dustjacket, bright and clean, shelf wear to edges, a few nicks and chips. Book is firm in binding, clean interior, previous owner's book plate on front free endpaper. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Octavo, 240 pages, clothbacked boards; light wear to dj Here are essays disguised as letters. Their postscripts appear here for the first time. Most are organized by the chronology in which they were written, not published.

First Edition. Hardcover. 240pp. V.g. in slightly tanned price-clipped dustwrapper with a few small tears to edges, slightly chipped head of spine and bottom edge of rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tiny chip to top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Tiny area of faint sunning to top and bottom edge of book due to dustjacket chips. Tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustjacket - see image. Book will be shipped with a Mylar sleeve covering the dustjacket, or inclosed with the book - your choice. ; Both book and dustjacket are in Very Good + conditinon - exceptions noted. Price at top edge of inside panel of justjacket of $4.50. No markings or inscriptions in the book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [2], 3-240, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over brown paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The top textblock lightly foxed and spotted; jacket has traces of edge wear and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 240 pages. First Edition. A collection of White's essays in the form of letters to The New Yorker. Trace sunning to upper edge of cloth boards, still fine, in very good plus price-clipped dustjacket with mild tanning to upper edge of rear panel and white lettering on spine panel, minor wear at lower edge of rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. DJ CHiPPED BACK DISCOLORED.4 INCH TEAR ON FRONT COVER IT IS FIXED.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Frayed DJ. First Edition. 240pp. "Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South.".

First Edition - stated on copyright page. 8vo. Black cloth with brown paper covered boards stamped in gilt. xiv, 240 pages. Four small light tape stains on covers where acetate covered jacket was attached. Clean. tight. Bright. Nice dust jacket has a few chips and several closed tears. Very Good/Very Good condition.

xiv, 240 pp. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition. Slight bumping at head and heel of spine; a nice copy in jacket with a 1" tear to the front panel, light soiling and edge wear.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dj Slightly Edge Wo. First American Edition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First printing. First edition of this collection of dispatches to THE NEW YORKER by the author of CHARLOTTE'S WEB and STUART LITTLE. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Quarter blind-stamped black cloth, brown paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($4.00) color pictorial jacket. Machine deckle fore edge. xiv, 240 pages. Previous owner name penciled to front fly leaf. Jacket with some edgewear, chipping at spine head, light toning to extremities. Book with faint shelfwear, spot of toning at spine head. Very good plus in very good jacket.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 'Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South'; collects eighteen pieces after setting out in the world from his Manhattan office; dedicated to William Shawn (another one); and Morris Lurie's copy Âwith his name on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is lightly age toned and has few markings. Dust jacket has a plastic covering to prevent further damage and was taped in but tape has come loose. Publishers cloth is in good shape with gilt writing on the spine and a blind stamp on the front cover. Text is lightly age toned as well but easily legible with a deckled edge. Binding remains strong. Book includes a cut out from a newspaper article on the author. Overall book is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth quarter-bound to spine over dark gray paper on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of any markings or flaws inside and out - book is Near Fine. Clipped Dust Jacket has a price sticker of $4.95 on it but has no scuffing, tears or shelfwear to speak of. Near Fine too.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Some of the remarks of the reviewer are written on the reverse of the review copy notification. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over brown boards, blind stamped rooster weather vane on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. . Head and heel of spine are rubbed, heel of spine is bumped as are lower tips, light offset to front endpapers from laid-in publisher's letter, else unmaked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has tiny chips at the tips and edges of the front cover, several longer tears and creasing at the edges of the rear panel, now protected by mylar. VERY GOOD/POOR. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 240 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition as stated, black cloth with grey-brown paper over boards; rooster blind-stamped on cover, with gilt titles on spine. Near fine in very good unclipped dj (worn/chipped on tips and top front edge) with $4.00. Else bright and tight, very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, dark gray paper covered boards, in a Near Fine price-clipped dustwrapper, two minute tears top front panel, not visible. 240pp. Q18639.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing. A Fine copy in black cloth over gray paper covered boards, in a jacket that is Fine but for a tiny repaired nick to rear top panel. Not price-clipped. 240pp. Q12833.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Hall A24. A Fine copy in quarter black cloth, dark gray paper covered boards, in a Fine brown, black and green dustwrapper, not price-clipped (spine slightly toned). 240pp. One of 6000 copies distributed by The New Yorker, identified as such with a tipped-in leaf before the title page. Q19922.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, dark gray paper covered boards, in a Near Fine price-clipped dustwrapper with one short invisible tear top front spinefold. 240pp. Essays written by White in the years during his transition from New York to his saltwater farm in Maine. Q16214.