The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. by Fitzgerald, F. Scott - 1979. 0151740208

New York:: Viking Press,, 1938.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the cloth binding in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, a tiny chip missing near the head of the spine and a glue bleed through running along the fold of the rear panel. Otherwise a respectable copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck short stories that includes The Chrysanthemums, The White Quail, Flight, The Snake, Breakfast, The Raid, The Harness, The Vigilante, Johnny Bear, The Murder, St. Katy The Virgin, the Complete Red Pony, The Leader of the People. There were only 8000 copies of this title published in the First Edition.

New York:: Random House,, 1967.. First Printing of the First US Edition. This is a Fine, crisp unread copy in a Near Fine, bright dust jacket with a tiny closed edge tear to the bottom of the front panel and a touch of wear to the head of the spine. Otherwise a brilliant copy of Thompson's first book. The boards are perfectly square, the stamping on the spine spectacular and the black top stain is perfect.

New York:: Liveright,, 1931.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has shallow chipping to the head & heel of spine. Uncommon in any kind of jacket. "This little book (of essays)...is an attempt to express in story form, partly in broken verse, partly in opinions ...a growing conviction that modern man is losing his ability to retain his manhood in the face of the modern way of utilizing the maching and that what hope there is for him lies in women." From Anderson's introduction.

New York:::: MacMillan,,,, 1954... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the… Read More

San Francisco:: Lantern Press,, 1925.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy in black paper boards with wear to extremities and spine. This is one of a 1000 numbered copies issued without dust jacket. Printed for the Lantern Press by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. This forty-four page volume contains Anderson's views on the role of the writer in a time of great social change and at a time of when modernism dominated the shifting literary landscape.

New York:: Viking Press,, 1938.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the cloth binding in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, a tiny chip missing near the head of the spine and a glue bleed through running along the fold of the rear panel. Otherwise a respectable copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck short stories that includes The Chrysanthemums, The White Quail, Flight, The Snake, Breakfast, The Raid, The Harness, The Vigilante, Johnny Bear, The Murder, St. Katy The Virgin, the Complete Red Pony, The Leader of the People. There were only 8000 copies of this title published in the First Edition.

New York:: Random House,, 1967.. First Printing of the First US Edition. This is a Fine, crisp unread copy in a Near Fine, bright dust jacket with a tiny closed edge tear to the bottom of the front panel and a touch of wear to the head of the spine. Otherwise a brilliant copy of Thompson's first book. The boards are perfectly square, the stamping on the spine spectacular and the black top stain is perfect.

New York:: Liveright,, 1931.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has shallow chipping to the head & heel of spine. Uncommon in any kind of jacket. "This little book (of essays)...is an attempt to express in story form, partly in broken verse, partly in opinions ...a growing conviction that modern man is losing his ability to retain his manhood in the face of the modern way of utilizing the maching and that what hope there is for him lies in women." From Anderson's introduction.

New York:::: MacMillan,,,, 1954... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the… Read More

San Francisco:: Lantern Press,, 1925.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy in black paper boards with wear to extremities and spine. This is one of a 1000 numbered copies issued without dust jacket. Printed for the Lantern Press by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. This forty-four page volume contains Anderson's views on the role of the writer in a time of great social change and at a time of when modernism dominated the shifting literary landscape.