Spring Returns by Long Haniel: First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In green cloth with some faint marks to bottom page ends, else Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped jacket with some nicks to top edge and a few tears (1/3 and 1/2). Stain to top rear of jacket and some darkening to spine. Also, price stamp and remnants of sticker to top of front flap. Overall a nice copy of this extremely rare book by the author of 'Interlinear for Cabeza de Vaca'. Preface by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Printed in the U.S.A. [Date from the copyright page.] Preface, list of characters; ix, 246 pages. The original turquoise cloth is in excellent shape except for slight bumping of the spine ends; the lettering on the upper board and spine—with its orange title square—is bright and clear. The interior leaves are bright, crisp and clean; however, my philosopher-father wrote the date, 1958, neatly in blue ink, on the title page. [Visible in one of the four images of the actual book—which see.] The original pictorial dust jacket is a bit rubbed and spotted with a sunned spine; it is price-clipped, though a rather discreet $3.95 is stamped on the flap. From the preface by Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "'There are, I am persuaded, persons who have had a glimpse of something so perfect that they are afterwards impatient with the imperfect world about them, and all the imperfect people. It may be a religious revelation or a vision from pure reason. If these people lack the courage to embrace the leper of imperfection, the result is for them disharmony.' I have copied this paragraph from Haniel Long's posthumous novel. Pondering on it and using it as a lens through which to review my impression of him, I wonder if here, in the opening phrase, we are not very close to the author. . . . He wrote: 'How few people make a demand of the soul.' He made demands of the soul and he wished people to make such demands of him. . . . 'Sooner or later hell happens to everyone.'" [My father had Long's 'Interlinear for Cabeza de Vaca', listed separately.] As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine first edition hardcover, no writing, book very slightly slanted. Jacket very good, minor edge wear, some toning at spine, price-clipped. Protected in mylar. A fine reading copy. M00297.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light staining on spine.