Born of Those Years by Burgess, Perry - 1951

Henry Holt & Company, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1952. First British Edition. 306 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Major sunning to interior.

Henry Holt, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Burgess on presentation bookplate..

Henry Holt & Co, 1951. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Blue cloth over boards. Gold lettering on spine. Clean throughout. DJ not price clipped. Rubbed on edges. In archival cover.

London: J.M. Dent, 1952. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Jacket is edgeworn with marks to front and rear. Small tears to edges of jacket. Hinge break at FEP and foxing to page block. Boards are sound and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

New York: Henry Holt, 1951. inscription signed by Burgess on flyleaf, good in fair d.j. . New York: inscription signed by Burgess on flyleaf, good in fair dj 1951

NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1951. 1st. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 5.75"x8.5"x1". 307 pages. Blue cover with gilt letters on spine. Dedication plate on first flypaper to "Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lindenberg." Signed by author. Preview by author Erie Vista, Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio July 15, 1951. Contents listing 43 chapters. Index. Black and white photos (51) between pages 212 and 213 with the last one being of Perry Burgess, author. Seven page index. Sun fading to spine and edges. VA Clinic in ink on title page. No other markings. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. "Perry Burgess (born Joplin, Missouri, October 12, 1886; died Unionville, Ohio, September 15, 1962) was an American minister, fundraiser, writer, and authority on leprosy. His 1940 novel "Who Walk Alone" won a National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Bookseller Discovery Award. Burgess was the son of George W. and Cora Osborne Burgess. His father was a prominent businessman in Joplin. At age 16 Burgess became a… Read More