Search Results: blood for a stranger by jarrell randall

N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. x, 82p. A very good copy with four tape-marks (none more than 1/2") on the endpapers and the former owner's signature on the front free endpaper, in a very good d.j. which has four tape-marks.. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Author's first book. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, spine faded, jacket very good, spine also somewhat dull, light darkening and soil to rear panel, minor wear to spine ends.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the flaps, a few small chips and spots of rubbing at the edges and corners. Red buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Jarrell's first collection of poetry. This is Jarrell's only collection to be published before he joined the Army during World War II, an experience that informed much of his subsequent writing. Still, these poems don't express an entirely optimistic view of the world. As Elizabeth Drew writes in her 1942 review in The Atlantic, "Dying individuals, dying cultures, dying worlds haunt his poems, all crying for life but trapped in death.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. First Printing, one of 1,700 copies. Octavo (22.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in dark blue on spine; dustjacket; x,82,[2]pp. Thin horizontal stain to upper spine, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, and a touch of dust-soil to rear panel; Very Good+ or better. A well-preserved copy of this wartime publication, the National Book Award-winning author's first collection of poetry. WRIGHT A1.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/Good+. 82 p. 23 cm. Red cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has creases and some small tears. Small ink signature on front free endpaper. Jarrell's first book.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a near very good dustwrapper with some rubbing, age-toning, and tiny nicks. Jarrell's first book.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1942. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 82 pp., Former copy of poet John Frederick Nims with his signature, dated 1943, on the front free endpaper, Small triangular chip from upper front edge of dust jacket; spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Author's first book .

NY: Harcourt Brace & Company. VG+. 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in red cloth with blue spine lettering. 8vo, 82 pp . The author's first book. Book is VG+ with a small water spot at the very bottom edge of the spine. Cloth covers are otherwise clean and br ight. Inner gutters lightly tanned else fine inside. In a VG dj that h as tiny frays to the head of the spine and some dust soiling to the re ar panel and fold. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Some dampstaining to the boards, thus only good, in very good dustwrapper with a small chip and some tanning to the spine. Author John Malcolm Brinnin's copy with his ownership signature. Jarrell's first book.

New York:: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, [1942].. First edition; advance copy with publisher's printed slip tipped in.. publisher's red cloth in dust jacket.. Near fine in a jacket with a sunned spine and rear panel; some minor wear at edges.. 8vo,.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated), one of only 1700 printed, of Jarrell's first collection of poems. 8vo: xi,82pp. Publisher's crimson fine-bead cloth, spine lettered in navy blue; vivid red typographic dust jacket, lettered in white and priced $2.00. Fine and apparently unread; About Fine jacket (minimal fading to spine panel, lettering still crisp) that has benefited from minor expert restoration to spine panel tips (far from lettering on both ends). Wright A1. Heavily influenced by the poetry of W.H. Auden and dedicated to the American poet Allen Tate. Published the year Jarrell enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers… Read More

New York.: Harcourt, Brace & Co.,, 1942 1st. edn. Hardback in remains of dustwrapper. 8vo. x, pp82. Orig. red cloth, blue stamped to spine. Top edges dusty, faded head (!/2") & tail (1/4") of bumped spine where exposed by loss to d/w. Browning to endpapers & last 7 pp have marks from spilt coffee (?). Occasional spotting in rest of text. The d/w (I shudder to describe it!) has loss to head & tail and chipping along entire upper edge, rubbing through to fore-edges, though flaps still attached, and is generally grubby. HOWEVER, THIS IS AN ASSOCIATION COPY- with neat ink inscr. to fep "C & L Jarrell, San Francisco. 1943" (Charlie was Jarrell's younger brother and married to Lucy, see my copy of Little Friend, Little Friend also catalogued here). Also loosely inserted a manuscript poem signed by Charles.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. FIRST EDITION, first printing with original unclipped dust jacket. Full red cloth binding. 82 pp. Light staining to the dust jacket with small closed small tears, interior pages toned, pencil notes on fly pages. Bookplate of Henry Kurth on the front endpaper. Not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD PLUS condition book in a VERY GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. Photos available upon request.. First Edition. Full Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1942. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. 1/1700 Copies. Author's First Book. Lightly Faded Back Strip of Jacket. Excellent Fresh Copy..

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. 8vo, cloth, d.w. (slightly nicked on the spine and price-clipped). New York: Harcourt Brace, First Edition.<br/><br/> The author's first book.<br/><br/>

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in red cloth with blue lettering to spine. Some Age darkening to pages & page edges; otherwise fine in dustjacket showing some light wear to outer corners & head & heel of spine panel, with some dustsoil over all. A glorious copy.

NEW YORK, HARCOURT, 1942, 1942. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED); ADVANCE REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE, FRESH COPY. F. Hardcover.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942. 1st edition, full red cloth, with printed dust jacket. The author's monumental first solo book. (Wright A1.) Published in an edition of only 1700 copies, the present volume shows gentle wear and sunning to the jacket. On the inside pastedown is a small printed bookseller's plate from Vanguard Booksellers of Johannesburg. Overall near fine condition.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First edition of the author's first book. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Endsheets a bit toned, else a fine copy in bright red dust jacket (with loss of top portion of the back panel and letter R of first name at top of spine panel, still about very good). First edition of the author's first book. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1942. First edition. Red cloth with blue lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. 82 pp. Lovely copy of the poet's first book, one of 1700 printed. Especially bright and fine; the jacket is sound, lightly worn at foot of spine, else also bright and fine (in removable protective archival cover). Wright A1.