Prose Quartos, First Edition (14 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Uncredited (illustrator). Limited Edition. Card covers of different color with paper spine labels, spines sunned with some uneven fading to covers, mild chipping to spine labels; original cloth-coverd slip case is scratched, sunned and slightly worn. Contains the prose pieces: The Litter of the Rose Leaves by Stephen Vincent Benet; Tabloid News by Louis Bromfield; Gehenna by Conrad Aiken; Feathers by Carl van Vechten; American County Fair by Sherwood Anderson; and Fine Furniture by Theodore Dreiser. Limited to 875 copies. Size: 8vo.

Original wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Inches. Six chapbooks each bound in different color issued in one slipcase. Limited to 875 copies. Includes original contibutions by Stephen Vincent Benet, Louis Bromfield, Conrad Aiken, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser. A very attractive set with light rubbing to spine labels.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Lacking *Gehenna* by Conrad Aiken. Toned spines and slight wear at extremities, very good in a very good or better slipcase with light rubbing and sunning. One of 875 copies. Includes five out of the six separate works in stiff wrappers with paper spine labels, housed in publisher's slipcase. Works include: *The American County Fair* by Sherwood Anderson, *The Litter of the Rose Leaves* by S.V. Benet, *Tabloid News* by Louis Bromfield, *Fine Furniture* by Theodore Dreiser, and *Feathers* by Carl Van Vechten.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Six prose examples from that days top Random House writers. 875 copies for Random House. The spines of the little books have some sunning, and the F in FINE FURTITURE has been rubbed. Paper labels. FINE FURNITURE by Dreiser, AMERICAN COUNTY FAIR by Anderson, FEATHERS by Van Vechten, GEHENNA by Aiken, TABLOID NEWS by Bromfield, and THE LITTER OF THE ROSE LEAVES by Benet. The slip case is solid and has a paper label to the back spine which shows some dampstain. This affects only the top third of the label, and only the N in TABLOID NEWS is obscured. The case has a little sunning, and a little shelf wear. There is a slight bump to the corner (top back ).

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 1st. frontis'; Limited edition 'PJ' of 875 copies. - Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Vincent Benet, Louis Bromfield, Conrad Aiken, and Carl Van Vechten. ; Stephen Vincent Benet- "The Litter of the Rose Leaves". Theodore Dreiser- "Fine Furniture". Sherwood Anderson- "The American County Fair". Carl Van Vechten- "Feathers". Conrad Aiken- "Gehenna". Louis Bromfield- "tabloid News". Louis Bromfield- "Tabloid News". Louis Bromfield- "Tabloid News"- wrappers in vg slipcase.

Soft cover. Condition: Near VG Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. Limited First Edition. One of 875 sets with minor discloration of some spines, appears never to have been read. Slipcase is heavily worn. Book.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. Six chapbooks each bound in various colored wrappers issued together in a slipcase. 1: The Litter of the Rose Leaves by Vincent Benet. 2: Tabloid News by Louis Bromfield. 3: Gehenna by Conrad Aiken. 4: Feathers by Carl van Vechten. 5: American County Fair by Sherwood Anderson. 6: Fine Furnature by Theodore Dreiser. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback) with paper label on color-faded spines. In a very good black slipcase with a paper label on the back and a 3-1/2 inch tear along one corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, one of 875 copies. Wraps are sunned at the spine and slightly worn at extremities, else very good to near fine in a slipcase somewhat faded, and rubbed at extremities. Six separate works in stiff wraps, paper spine labels, housed in publisher's slipcase. Works as follows: "Gehenna" by Conrad Aiken, "The American County Fair" by Sherwood Anderson, "The Litter of the Rose Leaves" by S.V. Benet, "Tabloid News" by Louis Bromfield, "Fine Furniture" by Theodore Dreiser, and "Feathers" by Carl Van Vechten. A very good set.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Six chapbooks bound in stiff card covers, housed in original linen covered slipcase with paper printed spine label. Includes: Stephen Vincent Benet, "The Litter of the Rose Leaves"; Theodore Dreiser, "Fine Furniture"; Sherwood Anderson, "The American County Fair"; Carl Van Vechten, "Feathers"; Conrad Aiken, "Gehenna"; and Louis Bromfield, "Tabloid News". Limied to 875 copies. First edition. Each chapbook bound in different color card stock, with paper spine label. "American County Fair" toned to light brown at extremities. Slipcase shows light toning/fading along edge of one side and paper spine label darkened from age, though still quite readable. All volumes in fine condition, except as noed above. Slipcase is clean and solid, with no tears or splits. A very good+ or better set in a very good slipcase.

Condition: Very good. 1st. One of 875 copies of this set of six stories: Stephen Vincent Benet, THE LITTER OF THE ROSE LEAVES ; Louis Bromfield, TABLOID NEWS; Conrad Aiken, GEHENNA ; Carl Van Vechten, FEATHERS; Sherwood Anderson, THE AMERICAN COUNTY FAI; Theodore Dreiser, FINE FURNITUR. Each volume is bound in wraps and in a slipcase. with green printed label on spine.

6 vols. 8vo, publisher's wrappers with printed paper labels, in slipcase. First edition. Sunned at spines; tiny chips to spine labels; light use to slipcase.

First edition. Six vols., 8vos, stiff wrappers with printed spine labels. Limited to 875 copies. Includes original contibutions by: Stephen Vincent Benet, Louis Bromfield, Conrad Aiken, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser. Very nicely printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston. Neat bookplates to inner front wrappers; slight fading to spines and some loosening of a couple of the labels, otherwise nice copies in the original slipcase, lightly marked.

PROSE QUARTOS. Six separate works: "Gehenna" by Conrad Aiken; "American County Fair" by Sherwood Anderson; "The Litter of the Rose Leaves" by S.V. Benet; "Tabloid News" by Louis Bromfield; "Pink Furniture" by Theodore Dreiser; and "Feathers" by Carl Van Vechten. Each bound in orig. wrappers with paper label on spine in publisher's box. N.Y.: Random House, 1930. First edition. Limited to 875 copies. A fine set.

First Edition. Octavo. Original coloured wrappers with paper labels to spines, top edges trimmed, others uncut. With the black publisher's slipcase with paper label to spine. (broken) Engraved title pages and headpieces, text printed on laid paper. Darkening to the spines of volumes, a very good set. First and limited edition, first printing, one of 875 copies. This set of short stories by six of the most popular American writers of the post-World War I era comprises "The American Country Fair" by Sherwood Anderson, "Feathers" by Carl Van Vechten, "The Litter of the Rose Leaves" by Stephen Vincent Benét, "Fine Furniture" by Theodore Dreiser, "Gehenna" by Conrad Aiken, and "Tabloid News" by Louis Bromfield. The fine press printer Paul Johnston designed and printed this edition at his press in Connecticut.