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Colby College Press�, Waterville, ME�, 1951. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Fine Condition/Fine. Pamphlet Signed by Author. Size: Around 7" or slightly taller - Duodecimo (12mo). Item Type: Pamphlet. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Maine; United States; 1950s; History. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1246. .

Colby College Press, Waterville, ME, 1951. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. Pamphlet Inscribed by Author. A scarce bit of ephemera, especially inscribed by Roberts. The copies I have seen are marked as Christmas gifts to friends in 1951. This copy is inscribed on the title page to Dr. Oscar Johnson by Roberts. The Christmas notation at the bottom of the page next to the year of publication is almost completely washed away by the water. The text was originally written by Roberts as his last article for the Saturday Evening Post (Bales, 1993, p. 87) and reprinted by Colby College Press. There is a four page catalog of publications at the rear of the text. Note: I have a large selection of Kenneth Roberts books and related materials. Contact me if you are looking for something in particular. First Thus. Size: Around 7" or slightly taller - Duodecimo (12mo). 27 pages. Item Type: Pamphlet. Saddle-stapled booklet with heavier stock plain cover coverd in turn by a red wrapper with flaps.… Read More

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good+ Condition/Good. Illustrator: Robert B. Haberstock. Book A collection of 19 essays, including the title essay in which Roberts criticizes the Pulitzer Prize Committee for awarding the prize intended for novels dealing with American life and standards to works that lacked an American context. According to Jack Bales (1993), these essays had been rewritten for this book from originals published in the Saturday Evening Post (p. 64). According to reports, the book sold poorly with only 5,603 copies printed, which Roberts attributed to the title (Bales, p. 141n27). Thirteen of these essays were included in the later collection, The Kenneth Roberts Reader. The linecut illustrations are by Robert B. Haberstock, who designed a number of book dust jackets from the 1930s into the 1950s. Note: I have a large selection of Kenneth Roberts books and related materials. Contact me if you are looking for… Read More

Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, NY, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Paul Galdone. Book A collectible copy of Roberts' acerbic account of his treatment for tonsillitis. From the front flap: "What Ellis Parker Butler did for guinea pigs and Irvin S. Cobb for operations, Kenneth Roberts has now hilariously done for tonsils." Following the text are three pages of advertisements for Roberts' first four novels and his essay collection "For Authors Only" Size: Small Octavo. 70 pages. Item Type: Book. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Near Fine hardcover bound in black cloth with red line drawing on the front cover and title in red/author black on red field on spine. The only defect is a slight bump to the bottom corner of the front cover. No foxing in this copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.00) in Very Good- condition with a little loss at the head and… Read More

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good-. Book A well-preserved copy of a collection of 26 essays and chapters from Roberts' books. According to Jack Bales (1993), this book resulted from Roberts' disappointment with the collection published ten years prior as For Authors Only, which he thought sold poorly because of the title. Bales notes Roberts "wanted Doubleday to bring out a new edition under a different title," but the publisher deemed that unethical (p. 141n27). As a result, this Reader picks up 13 of the 19 essays in For Authors Only (five of which are renamed, as noted in the headings) and adds 13 more, largely chapters from his novels. Note: I have a large selection of Kenneth Roberts books and related materials. Contact me if you are looking for something in particular. Size: 8"-9" - Octavo (8vo). 460 pages. Item Type: Book. Text block is tight and unmarked, though the… Read More

Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, [1891]. Revised and Enlarged Ed. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition/None (as issued). VG HB with no DJ (as issued), but protected by custom cut clear polyester cover. 2 p. l., 3-184 p. front. (port.) 17 cm. A very attractive early copy of Ruskin's essays with an intertwined "JR" monogram in black and gilt embossed on the front cover and bright gilt title on spine with 5 raised bands. Size: Sextodecimo (16mo; up to 6 3/4" / 15-17.5 cm tall). Text block is tight, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and spine fully attached; leather is good with minimal wear showing around the edges and on the raised bands of the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Ruskin protected by tissue paper with decorative title for this edition, in addition to the regular title page. Some foxing on tissue and decorative title page only, not affecting the frontispiece or the rest of the text, which is bright and clean. All edges gilt in bright, rich condition. Red… Read More