O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1945. [J.F. Powers, Jessamyn West, Elizabeth Hardwick, et al] by Brickell, Herschel, ed - 1946

New York: Book League of America, 1941. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xix, 330 pp. The book is slightly cocked. Previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The front flap of the jacket has been clipped out and pasted to the front free endpaper. The spine covering is faded. The binding is tight and the text is clean.

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1943. The book is very tight, slight scuff on the back cover, pages are faintly tanning. . 25 th Anniversary Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Literary Guild of America, 1942. Cover bumped and chipped with worn edges. Pages foxing, text unmarked. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: The Literary Guild of America, 1942. Cover is bumped and slightly worn. Pgs. are clean & tight and browning.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Hardcover first edition, published by Doubleday, 1943. No dust jacket. 320 pages, with Appendix. The 25th anniversary collection of award winning stories. Included are stories by Eudora Welty, Dorothy Canfield, Pearl Buck, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Carson McCullers, James Thurber, William Saroyan, and several others. This copy has no former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Dark blue boards with the title on the spine, all lettering on the spine is still legible. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased. Some minor edge wear to the left side at the gutters, both front and back, and to the bottom edge. Edges of the text block are relatively clean. This is a WWII era book, so the paper stock is somewhat lower quality than usual. One short closed tear at the top of the last blank flyleaf, about one inch long. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.

Garden City: Dday. VG book, no DJ. SIGNED.. 1943. early, not 1st. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. SIGNED fep. Tight. Light shelfwear. Spine ends torn. Spine faded. 8vo, 319pp. .

New York: Literary Guld of America, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus. Hardcover is rubbed at spine ends and lightly bumped corners, cover and foredges soiled, pages lightly browned at edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

1 . hardback. Near Fine. Selected and Edited by HB, assisted by Muriel Fuller. 1st ed. NY (Doubleday Doran) 1943. Fine in frayed dust wrapper. Image available upon request.

New York: Literary Guild, 1942.. 8vo., 356 pp., Good, Red Cloth, Dust Jacket, Shelf-wear, dust jacket w/ tears, rubbing, creases on spine, pencil scribbles in frontispiece.

New York: Book League of America, 1941.. 8vo. 330 pp. Red Cloth, Good with staining to covers, volume slanted, end papers toned.