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New York: Modern Library. 1932 (only date given). EX Vance AFB Library with stamps, card pocket etc. Unclipped ($1.45) plastic protected Jacket taped to boards. ML 201. Binding tight. 823 pp, 8 pages of ads in back.

Macaulay, 1910, no other printing info. Green cloth, pictorial paper paste-on to front. White pages, slight spine lean. A little scuffing to picture on front board, moderate wear to spine ends and corners. 1910 inscription front (illustrated) pastedown, binding tight. Numerous b/w illustrations (one color) by Joseph Clement Coll. 277 pp. Fast shipping with tracking, careful, secure packaging.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co. 1951. Outstanding copy, appears unread. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine bright and vibrant, not faded at all. No creasing to pages which are also bright and white, including endpapers and pastedowns. Listing as Near Fine rather than Fine only because minor rubs and scuffs to black cloth boards. Deckled fore and foot edges. Book Club Edition indicated by "pencil point" indentation lower rear board near spine. "Copyright 1945, 1946, 1951 by J.D. Salinger" with a lone "W" below, followed by "Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland and Stewart Limited" and "Printed in the United States of America" - only printing indications. DJ not present. Again, a beautiful copy of this collectible classic. 277 pp.

AS NEW First edition 1st printing in a NF lightly shelfworn dust jacket. 363 pp.

First edition, 1st printing stated. Hardcover in mylar sleeved dustwrapper. Small PO name front endpaper otherwise an excellent FINE copy in an edgeworn chipped and torn (price intact, $5.00) jacket. 2" tear tape-mended head of DJ spine. FINE/VG-. 421 pp.

New York: Henry Holt. 1928. Apparent 1st edition, copyright 1928 only print info given. Preface, general Introduction and notes preceding each story in English, stories themselves are in ITALIAN. Selected and edited by Marraro, instructor in Italian at Columbia University. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by author ffep "To ______ with the compliments of Howard R. Marraro 12/7/28." Tight, clean unmarked interior. Light green cloth boards a little faded, soiling and a small red stain front board. Full page black/white author photos. English/Italian Notes, Exercises and Vocabulary at rear. 250 pp.

Presumed First edition, not stated. 1943. Tiny corner crimps to a few adjacent pages otherwise no mention worthy issues. Appears unread, white unmarked pages, excellent copy. Price intact ($3.75) DJ, on the other hand is heavily worn but present and now in a Brodart sleeve. Chipping, 2" piece missing tail of spine, rear wrap separated at spine (not apparent in archival protector). NEAR FINE/FAIR. Illustrations by Donald McKay. Four great Dickens masterpieces condensed for the modern reader, condensed by Mary Louise Aswell. 543 pp.

Volume II only (Purgatory). First printing (stated). Excellent AS NEW copy, looks to be unread. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, translated by Thomas G. Bergin. 13 1/4" x 9". 292 pp.

1931 only date given. Red cloth boards with silver and dark gray to front and spine. Previous owner name and date front pastedown, no other markings noted, no apparent wear. Straight and square. Price intact ($4.50) dustwrapper with couple of tiny chips and short closed tears, now protected in Brodart sleeve. Eight full-page illustrations. "Great Illustrated Classics, TITAN EDITIONS". Translation used is that called Dryden's, revised by Arthur Hugh Clough. FINE/VG+. 780 pp.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1951. Presumed 1st American ed, not stated. Hardcover. FINE/None. Excellent condition. Red boards w/ gilt lion to front and lettering at spine. Very light age toning. 1951 inscription ffep otherwise clean and unmarked, a very nice copy. See picture of this copy. Packaged securely, shipped promptly. 317 pp.

First edition. Softcover. Slight spine lean, couple tiny tears heel of spine, two short closed tears front wrap of jacket. No marks, only minor wear. DJ has some chipping at spine ends. Deckled edges. NF/VG. Outstanding illustrations by Robert Hogfeldt. 334 pp.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. Illustrated Junior Library. FINE/FAIR. Excellent copy, unmarked, straight and square. One corner crimp found. Mylar covered dust jacket has a 2" tear front wrap, losses here and there particularly at head of spine. Blue and green leaf pattern on a beige/tan ground front and rear, blue at spine. Fritz Eichenberg illustrations. Color illustrated endpapers. 244 numbered pages.

Nobel Prize Edition, February 1929. "The Bridal Wreath", "The Mistress of Husaby" and "The Cross" in one volume. Binding starting at rear, still holding. Spine sunned, some staining to boards. Old bookplate ffep. 386 pp.

Heritage Press, NY, no DJ as issued, no slipcase. 1955. First Thus, 4to - 11" tall. Light tanning around board edges, small elegant PO name ffep, AS NEW otherwise. "The story of King Arthur & his noble knights of the round table, first printed by William Caxton, now modernised, as to spelling and punctuation, by A.W. Pollard, illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings [on every page] & printed for the Heritage Press, New York". 757 pp.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1948. NEAR FINE/VG. Gray cloth with blue to front and spine. Patterned Harcourt Brace endpapers. "quarrrels" on p. 223, "P.10.62" on copyright page. Price intact ($2.50) mylar sleeved jacket has a horizontal crease top front, couple tiny tears. Harcourt Brace Modern Classics series. 451 pp.

Meridian Books/Greenwich Editions. Hardcover in dust jacket. FINE/VERY GOOD+. Unmarked book with no apparent wear. Price-clipped DJ with small abrasion rear wrap, sunned spine and minor edge wear. Now in Brodart sleeve, presents well. Essays on painters Watteau, Chardin, Rembrandt, Gustave Moreau and Monet, writers Goethe, Chateaubriand, Joubert, Tolstoi, Dostoievski, others. Translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 416 pp.

Tulsa, OK: Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1989. VERY GOOD. Solid, clean, tight copy. Minor creasing to front wrap, minimal wear otherwise, no other mention worthy issues. Poetry and fiction, Photos, drawings, etchings, other artworks. First edition. Careful, secure packaging, prompt shipping. 148 pp.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+ condition. Red cloth boards, gilt info at spine. Price sticker ffep. Clean and unmarked, very minimal wear. *SEE PICTURE of this copy* Careful packaging, prompt shipping. 262 pp.

Very slight spine lean, small elegant PO name first blank page, otherwise an excellent copy, appears unread. No DJ, no slipcase. Sandglass laid in. NF. 331 pages with color Bernard Lamotte illustration after, his illustrations throughout. Justin O'Brien introduction.

Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1929. Purple cloth boards, paper label glued to the spine which is sunned/faded and has a few spots. Former owner name and date fep, unmarked otherwise, binding tight, minor edge wear to boards (no fraying). Solid VG copy, no DJ. 432 pp.