Pictures From an Institution

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Randall Jarrell, inscribed on behalf of his second wife and children on front free endpaper to his friend Harvard literary scholar Herschel Baker and his family. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine in about Very Good dust jacket. Jacket spine… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1987. PAPERBACK. Cover is a little scratched, soiled and worn. Pages are tanned. Small stains on the page ends. Text is unmarked. A faint crease in the spine.

New York: knopf, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A FINE copy of this brilliantly witty account of a progressive women's college, in a very good jacket, somewhat frayed and slightly chipped (well reinforced with tape), with a little fading to spine and a little soil on back panel. Jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Meridian Fiction, 1960. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. First MF printing: January 1960. Soiled cover, lightly bumped heel of spine and marked out price on front. Corners still sharp with interior pages very clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Second printing. Hardcover. 277 pages. Printed a month after the first printing. A humorous novel about academia from the this acclaimed poet who was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. A clean and tight near fine copy in green cloth boards and in an about good dust… Read more about this item

Penguin. Fair. 1959. Paperback. Binding solid, but front hinge weak due to small tear at base of spine. Pages unmarked but somewhat aged. Cover is discolored, with wear to edges and a couple of mild creases. .

Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9997405889 . ; Teal green cloth cover has bumped tail cap but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and near pristine. Dust jacket is worn at the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A humorous novel about academia from the this acclaimed poet who was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. A clean and tight very near fine copy in green cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minute… Read more about this item

Penguin, 1959. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 207pp, page margins & covers a little tanned, spine faded. Penguin 1249. A satirical novel which focuses on the oddities of academic life. Randall Jarrell [ 1914 - 1965 ] American poet and novelist.

University of Chicago Press, 1986. 277pp. Trade paperback, VG, "Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits", . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [7], vii, [3], 3-277, [1] pp. Teal cloth with gold lettering on the spine; pink topstain. Price of $3.50 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wright A6a. Jarrell's comedic novel, praised for its sharp wit and clever use of satire to ridicule different… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Fourth Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; vii,[1],277pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, spine panel a shade sunned, light soil to lighter portions, verso faintly foxed, else Very Good and sound overall, nicer than often encountered. Inscribed and… Read more about this item

University of Chicago Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. (Women's Colleges, Satire, Humor, Fiction) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

The jacket is in less than good shape, with chips and tears around the edges, and a hole in the spine (see photo). Clean boards, firm binding. Former owner's name on the front endpaper. Pages unmarked. Ships in a box.

Avon Books, 1980. First Thus . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing Thus. 238 pages. VERY FINE. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square.Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. With age toning to interior pages. Not marked and very clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed. … Read more about this item

1954: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A first edition copy of this humorous novel by poet Randall Jarrell, which satirises academic life, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. This is a humorous novel by Randall Jarrell, described as an 'academic satire'… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1988-01-20. Paperback. Acceptable. 8x5x1. Same ISBN, 1987 reprint by Faber but cover differs to stock image; actual book shown. Wear and creasing to cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's academic satire, nominated for the National Book Award. A fine copy in green cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh, neatly price-clipped dustwrapper showing some use at the extremities. 8vo.277 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Softcover. Good. Uncorrected proof. Spine cocked, wrappers soiled with short foredge tear and dampstain on the cover and first couple of leaves, good only.

SECOND PRINTING. Knopf, 1954. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, is soiled and edge worn, with a large open tear at the top of the spine and a few smaller ones. Price has been clipped. Text is unmarked. Strong binding. NOT ex-library.