Reaching For the Stars

The Cresset Press, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Fifth Impression. 326 pages. No dust jacket. White cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier water… Read more about this item

Little Brown, 1939. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Signed by Author. 380 pages. Some soiling to the spine and cover edges; pages yellowed; a sound binding. Name inside; gift inscription on the dedication page. Inscribed and signed by Waln on the title page. Musty odor; a solid binding; no jacket. Illustrator:… Read more about this item

Little, Brown and Co, 1939-01-01. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj quite shelf worn with scuffs, creases, light soiling, toning, chipping & small tears in a mylar cover.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1939). Hardcover. Owner's signature dated 1940. Some foxing. Dust-jacket with small 1/2" tears to margins. Creasing to front flap of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Australian edition. Sixth printing, in same year as the first edition. [x], 312, [2] pages. Red cloth boards with… Read more about this item

Very good crisp copy with tight binding. With bookseller sticker for Blacklock and Farries, Dumfries to pasteboard. Original dustcover with shelfwear, edgewear and minor tears. 1934 journey through Europe by an American Quaker journalist. Nora Waln (1895 – 27 September 1964) was a best-selling American writer and journalist in the 1930s–50s, writing books and articles on her time spent in Germany and… Read more about this item

Angus & Robertson, London, 1939. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned… Read more about this item

Signed and inscribed on the title page by Nora Waln. No dust jacket. Cream colored boards with black lettering on red field on spine. Lettering is sharp. Cover showing separation from text. No markings or writing in text. No loose or dog eared pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus hardcover. First edition. Text clean. Front hinge starting to crack. Spine yellowed.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Very good Hardcover, Reprint, No Dustwrapper. Book has light wear of spine ends and cover edges, light fading spine, light brown spotting foredges and endpapers. Clean text. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our… Read more about this item

The Cresset Press, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Fifth Impression. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Light thumb marking and tanning to pages with subtle cracking to gutters. Heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges with some minor foxing to pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner… Read more about this item

The Cresset Press, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Third Impression. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Brown staining to pages throughout. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft bumping to corners. Visible crushing to spine ends.… Read more about this item

The Cresset Press, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Fourth Impression. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Ex-libris sticker to front free endpaper. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine and edges are moderately tanned. Visible marks overall.… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Light stain to spine. pages very good+. The story of some lives in Germany before World War II. . Very Good. Hardcover. 8thprinting. 1939.

Boston: Little, Brown. Memoir of an American Quaker in Nazi Germany. Small edge tear and corner fold on title page, Good. No Dust Jacket. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 1939.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1939 Good Plus condition with light cover soiling. Content very clean and unmarked, binding strong. Memoir of an American woman in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.

London: The Cresset Press, 1941 Copy in oatmeal cloth on boards in clipped D/J. Jacket chipped and creased around edges with a few small pieces missing. Jacket has foxing inside and out. Previous owners inscription on front paste down. Early folios have small crease along centre. Clean and flat contents.

London: The Cresset Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1939 titling to spine rubbed away, rubbed to edges. some foxing, binding opens between signature A and B but still holds well. 312pp, inscribed free endpaper, fourth impression in the year of publication, a socialite travels europe particularly Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia and comments on the political climate of the times as her encounters,… Read more about this item

LITTLE, BROWN, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. VG + early print march 1939

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Somewhat darkened illustrated covers, few spots on spine, some staining to back cover, binding tight, interior very good. The story of some lives in Germany before World War II. . Good +. Hardcover. 1939.