Search Results: american first editions bibliographic check lists by johnson merle

New York: R. R. Bowker Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1936. 3rd Edition Revised & Enlarged. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Spine is browned. .

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1942. cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xviii, 553 pages. Fourth edition. The best edition of this excellent bibliography of American literature. Back cover spotted. Back inside hinge broken with covers detached from book block.

New York: Bowker, 1932. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 390 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing Of The Second, Revised And Enlarged Edition, 1932, One Of A Stated 1000 Copies. Lightly Used, Gilt Brilliant, Slight Rubbing, No Marks.

Bowker. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Written notes on front free endpage. Minor shelfwear. (American literature, first editions, bibliographies)

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1942. cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xviii, 553 pages. Fourth edition. The best edition of this excellent bibliography of American literature. Boards worn with front and rear cover almost detached. Cloth on spine detached. With many additional notes either written in or pasted in.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 390pp. Light general wear and soil, very good or better. One of 1,000 copies printed.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised and Enlarged edition. Tall octavo. 390pp. Tape shadows on each pastedown, else very good or better. One of 1,000 copies printed.

R.R. Bowker, 1929. First Edition. Very Good condition.

New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1936. Very Good condition. Spine a bit sunned as usual. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. 1936. Third Edition, Revised. A key reference. Provides all information and bibliographic "points" necessary to identify the first editions of 199 important US authors. Includes 23 authors that were deleted from the 4th and final edition, e. g. Andy Adams, Hart Crane, Ben Hecht, William James, Ezra Pound, Upton Sinclair, Carl Van Vechten, etc. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. See Tanselle Basic Collection #89. Webber p. 82.. Third Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xv, 507pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

R. R. Bowker,, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. Limited Edition. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Full title: American First Editions: Bibliographic Check Lists of the Works of 146 American Authors Revised and Enlarged. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Water marking to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Sticker to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Light marking to front board.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1929. cloth, paper spine label, top edge gilt. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge gilt. viii, 242 pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press. The first edition of this landmark bibliographical reference tool. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

NY: Bowker, 1936. Fourth edition. Flexible brown leather. A pocket book edition on thin paper. Best edition. Library numerals on spine, pocket removed from rear e.p. VG copy. A standard portable reference work.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1932. cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. x, 390 pages. Second edition, limited to 1000 copies. Rubbed.

New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1936. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1936. The Third Edition. Octavo, pale blue cloth boards with gilt spine imprinting, xiv + 507 pp. Very Good; some spine darkening, corner bumping, occasional patch of page edge soiling. Firmly bound and of pleasing aspect. Please see scans. As a small bonus, a few clippings from The Publisher's Weekly, dated in 1937 and 1940, accompany the book. L-42n

New York: R. R. Bowker Co, [1932].. 8vo. [390 pp.]. Very Good. Hard Covers. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pages fine. Errata present. Heavy volume, extra shipping may apply.From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1942. cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xviii, 553 pages. Fourth edition. The best edition of this excellent bibliography of American literature. Spine faded; Tape marks along edges of pastedown and endpaper.

New York: Bowker, 1932. Edition ltd. to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. 390; a near fine copy in original brown cloth, t.e.g.

Waltham: Mark Press, 1969. cloth. thick 8vo. cloth. xviii, 553 pages. Fourth edition, sixth printing and limited to 500 copies. The best edition of this bibliography of American literature.

New York: R. R. Bowker Co.,, 1932 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Large 8vo. c, 390 pp, laid-in errata, contributors, preface, American First Editions A-Z, c.1838-1928. Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1932 and Limited to 1000 copies. "The purpose served by this collection of rare books is no more to be argued than why is golf or music. First editions are collected, to the interest and edification of an increasing number of persons, and these lists are for the service of those people and of the dealers who supply their wants. The selectionof authors was made only partly in the spirit of prophesy. Twenty years from now -- or less -- many of the names here included will have passed into eclipse, at least every name here given represents an author whose worksare today (1932) being collected." from the Preface. Only the slightest age-toning to bottom and fore- text block edge, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth… Read More

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1929. Edition ltd. to 1000 copies, 8vo, 241pp., a near fine ex-library copy in orig. blue cloth with three lg. stains on front cover, occasional pencilled marginalia.