Hardcover. Cambrdige, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st edition, 1972, 566 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tears (taped) at the edges from agewear (see image). Top edge dyed. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. Barker has written an account of Morrison's life at once balanced and humane with a rare degree of insight into his complex and fascinating character.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 642 pages. Hardcover. Toning to edges. Red cloth boards with gilt decorations to cover. Gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with sunfading, and chips to one corner. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Reprographics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, 73 Pages. Paper wrappers with black cloth spine. Black and white photographs.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , First Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth. Gilt cameo to cover, faded gilt titles to spine. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Frontis illustration, James Gibbons Huneker, in sepia tones, protected with a tissue guard. Small 2mm dent to right side edge. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, clean and unmarked pages, with only light toning.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 710 pages, b&w illustrations. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, some b&w photographs, unclipped dust jacket. Light wear to cover. Clean and tight.
Hardcover. Oxford [England] ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 627 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Westport, CT, Greenwood, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Light adhesive residue on back cover, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Vantage Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Some sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Chipping and tears on dust jacket covers. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Front flyleaf clipped. Minor spotting on fore and bottom edges. Underlining in pen on about five pages. Nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, AND CONTAINS SIGNED LETTERS AND NOTES. 456 pages. Blue cloth cover, some fading and wear to edges. Dust jacket has bumped bottom edge, small chip missing from top edge of spine. Light foxing on fore edge, but inside is very bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. London, Little, Brown & Company, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Some minor sunfading to spine. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Biography of famed "Queen of the Underworld." Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate fading to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Portland, Maine, L. H. Nelson Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, with illustrations. Soiling on cover and some pages, binding loose from pages 15-18. Overall in good condition.
Hardcover. New York, Peter Lang, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 183 pages, b&w frontispiece. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Story of Dorothea Dix, American reformer. Previous owner's signature.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.