Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orig. pub. in 1932. This is the first Modern Library Giant Edition. 562 pages.
KeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois Univ., 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 314 pages. Dust jacket edgewear, rubbing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title-page.
Hardcover. Boston, The Bibliophile Society, rep, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue and cream colored cloth folder containing 13 blue sheets of paper (plus cover sheet) with Swinburne's written essay: Mr. Whistler's Lecture on Art. Signs of a ribbon tie which is gone.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Red cloth, no dust jacket. Light sun-fade to spine, rubbing to edges and previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 681 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some soil to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
 "Telling Line, The Martin, Douglas")
 "Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008Gordimer, Nadine")
 "Theodore H. White at Large - The Best of His Magazine Writing 1939-1986Thompson, Edward T.")