Search Results: a long fourth and other stories by taylor peter

Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Author's photo glued to inside front cover. Discoloration from phioto leaked onto flyleaf, and former owner's name and date written on flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Corners scuffed. Binding firm. Print on black spine worn to illegibility. Binding firm..

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in black cloth boards with title in lightly worn gilt on spine. No dust jacket, but front jacket flap has been affixed to front pastedown page. First printing of first edition. Overall condition is very good. Stamped on copyright page is "Property of U.S. Army," and on title page "Library Service Club No. 1, Camp Stoneman, Calif." Circulation card is glued to the final free endpage. Written in pencil on title page is Taylor's middle name, Hillsman. Clean crisp, and solidly bound. Short stories are what Taylor is lauded for, and this is his first book of short stories. Small 8vo. 166 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1948. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo. 166 pages. Hardcover in yellow and grey dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and worn and has a ring mark on front cover. The jacket is not price-clipped, and the copyright page states "First Edition." The foot of the spine and the bottom corner the jacket's front panel is chipped. There is also a V-shaped chip at top of jacket's rear panel. Black cloth binding has spotting at top edges of boards. Original owner's pencil inscription reads, "Mary Stamp Subline (?) / from Nancy Hale Bowers / October, 1948." Nancy Hale Bowers was an American novelist and short story writer. Text has light toning at edges. The author was an English teacher at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now known as UNCG).

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. Black boards are scuffed, corners are bumped and spine has moderate insect damage. An undated newspaper clipping has been stored between pages 20-21 causing a brown shadow. Text is clean with no markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Harcourt , Brace, 1948. First edition. 8vo, pp. 166. Black cloth, a very goopd tight copy. With the bookplate of poets Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith laid in. The author's first book.

London,, 1949. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Faint wear to covers and slight rubbing, otherwise sound, very good.. 8vo. pp x, 166. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered green at the spine. Corrected publication date tipped in behind verso of title page. Date on verso is 1948. Stories include: 'The scoutmaster', 'The fancy woman', and 'Rain in the heart'.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. A little faint smudging and bump on the boards, still about near fine lacking the dust jacket. Complimentary slip from Harcourt Brace and Company laid in. The author's first book,

Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London 1948 [i.e. 1949]., 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), considerably more uncommon that the US equivalent. 8vo. x, 166pp. Black cloth lettered in green at the spine. A miniscule indentation to the upper edge of a dozen text leaves. A virtually fine copy in slightly toned and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a tiny sliver of loss to the head of the spine panel and a second miniscule area of loss from one corner tip. A small slip tipped to the contents leaf notes "Owing to production delays this book was not published until 1949". The author's first book, seven short stories preceded by Warren's four-page introduction..

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Jacket spine sunned, some minor chipping along top edge. Few insignificant spots to fore edge of book.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth hardcover, titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 166p. Tight, straight and clean, about Fine; in original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap), orange faded to yellow on spine, else well-preserved with light rubbing and creasing to front panel; Very Good. Taylor's first published book, a collection of short stories, most set in his native Tennessee. Taylor would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 1984 novel A Summons to Memphis.

NY: Harcourt Brace and Co, (1948).. First edition.. 166 pp. Front and rear endpapers stained along bottom edge (from one of the old-style jacket 'protectors') else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to upper folds and crown of spine, which is faded, as usual. Introduction by Robert Penn Warren. Taylor's first book. This copy with the ownership signature of a poet who was a former student of Taylor's.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-166 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. A sharp copy of Taylor's first published book, a collection of short stories. A tiny discoloration to the top textblock and one corner gently rubbed; jacket has a small chip to its front fold.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First edition of author's first book. x, 166pp. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; the orange color on the jacket spine only has evenly faded to yellowish-gold (as usual), else jacket is crisp and bright. Bookseller's small name label on rear pastedown (at lower corner) Austin Book Shop Kew gardens. First edition of author's first book. x, 166pp. FIRST BOOK, SIGNED. Signed by Peter Taylor on the title page.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A little rubbing and tiny faint tape shadows on the endpapers, else near fine in modestly spine-faded near fine dustwrapper, although much less than usual. The author's first book,

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with some fading to the spine, although much less than usual. Although not otherwise marked, this is the author's own copy of his first book, from the home library of Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948. First Edition . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a near fine Dust Jacket.. Signed by the author on the title page. The Dust Jacket has some slight rubbing to the front fold flaps, minimal toning to spine and a small nick to the front panel.. Advance copy with the publishers slip affixed to the front flyleaf.