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Gale research Company, January 1979. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1979. First edition. first printing . Hardcover. Fine. 406 pages with cumulative index to volumes 1-4. Fine copy, issued without dust jacket.

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1977. First edition. first printing . Hardcover. Fine. 432 pages. Two tiny stains to the rear cover, else a fine copy, issued without dust jacket.

Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. New and unread. Condition is graded only Very Good due to a surface scrape (1 inch) and minor rubbing to the front cover. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. This author bibliography provides all the information needed to identify the first editions of 69 collected authors. It has photos of most authors and title page/dust jacket facsimiles. Covers the first editions of Conrad Aiken, Willa Cather, Peter DeVries, Theodore Dresier, William Goyen, Shirley Ann Grau, Randall Jarrell, Walt Kelly, Jerzy Kosinski, Larry McMurtry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Jesse Stuart, William Styron, Allen Tate, Leon Uris, Owen Wister, and 52 others. Includes a cumulative index to First Printings of American Authors (FPAA) volumes 1-4. Endpapers illustrated with many first edition title page reproductions. Bound in the original two tone (light blue and dark blue) cloth, stamped in bright gold.… Read More

Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. New and unread. Only minor wear to the cover (like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. This author bibliography provides all the information needed to identify the first editions of 69 collected authors. It has photos of most authors and title page/dust jacket facsimiles. Covers the first editions of Conrad Aiken, Willa Cather, Peter DeVries, Theodore Dresier, William Goyen, Shirley Ann Grau, Randall Jarrell, Walt Kelly, Jerzy Kosinski, Larry McMurtry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Jesse Stuart, William Styron, Allen Tate, Leon Uris, Owen Wister, and 52 others. Includes a cumulative index to First Printings of American Authors (FPAA) volumes 1-4. Endpapers illustrated with many first edition title page reproductions. Bound in the original two tone (light blue and dark blue) cloth, stamped in bright gold. Oversize Hardcover.… Read More

Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1977. Hardbacks. 4 volume set. Pp. xxvii, 432; 407; 412; 406. Illus. 1st edition 1977. Bindings a little bowed and worn to extremities. Some spotting and marking to edges, with very occasional spotting to contents. A rather decent set. A heavy set, additional postage will be required for orders outside the UK. (r33). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company. 1977-1987.. 5 volumes. Each volume c. 400pp. Original two-tone cloth ( no dustwrappers issued). B/w illustrations. A fine set Heavy book. Please contact seller direct for accurate overseas shipping charge.. First editions.

Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. First edition, first printing, first 4 volumes (of 5) only, 4to; decorative endpages, facsimiles throughout; original gilt and blue-stamped two-toned blue buckram over boards, fine; errata slips tipped in after front free endpages of volume 1 and 2; short-title bibliography with each volume standing on its own, covering the entire alphabet range; index for all 4 volumes at the end of Volume 4. At bottom of each title page: "A Bruccoli Clark Book"

Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volumes, four of them. An indispensable collection of four of the five volumes of the influential compendium of American authors and first edition, first printings of their works. All in First Edition, First Printing states, bound in a big, tall, massively heavy quarto hardcover format, two-tone light blue and darker blue cloth over boards format, gilt decoration to front cover, lettering to spines. Plentiful facsimiles. Errata slips tipped-in behind front free endpapaers of the first two volumes. Very slight smudging to page tips at bottom. Each of the four volumes cover the alphabet but in repeating fashion, one volume piled upon another. No dust jackets, as issued. Each volume also features a fine, two-page illustrated endpaper, being black-and-white photographs of the American authors covered therein but also facsimiles of memos, title pages, dust jackets… Read More

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company., 1987. First editions.. Hardcover. Very good. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company. 1977-1987. Five volumes. First editions. Clothbound, issued without dust jackets. Very good condition, some edge rubbing to the covers. Volumes 1-5.