The Single Hound

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Corner of the front fly clipped else near fine in very good dustwrapper with several modest chips at the extremities. Still a presentable copy of the author's very scarce second book and first novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition, title page date 1938. Author's first novel. Includes personal inscription signed by Sarton on the half-title, dated 1982, consistent with the program for A Magic Encounter with May Sarton which is laid in loosely at the front. Tan cloth printed in red, no dustjacket. Covers are darkened with use-related soil, edge rubbing, good… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Near-fine in very good+ or better dust-jacket. Jacket has slight loss at spine ends and at flap folds; minor wear and a few very short closed tears. Overall, a stunning copy of her first novel with an early inscription.. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Author's first… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First edition of her first novel, SIGNED on dedication page in 1981. Cloth a little darkened on spine, otherwise very good to fine in dust jacket worn on edges, with small chips on corners and spine ends (affecting the top of the "S" and "T" at top of spine), and a few faint stains on… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. First edition. Inscribed/dated to the ffep by Sarton. Slight soil, slight bumps to tips. The DJ in mylar has toned spine, losses to top edge, chips, rubbed joints. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Binding trifle cocked with the spine lightly sunned, offsetting in the gutters, very good or better, lacking the dust jacket. Briefly Inscribed on the front fly: "For Shirley / May Sarton." Publisher's complimentary copy with the slip laid in.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 241pp. Spine slightly cocked and very slightly toned, otherwise fine in an about very good dust jacket with a light dampstain at the crown and top of the cover, some loss at the folds, and a short closed tear on the cover. Inscribed by Sarton on… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Octavo. 24pp. Owner name and address, as well as a gift inscription on the front fly. Endpapers foxed, tiny tear at the crown, very good in a worn, good only dust jacket with a faint dampstain at the spine base, several tiny chips, and some loss at the… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Very good in a very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear and a few small chips and short closed tears. This copy is from the personal library of the late Madeleine L'Engle, 1963 Newbery Award winner for her now classic young adult fantasy novel *A… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Penciled owner name front fly, spine is lightly browned, with very slight fray at tips of spine, very good or better copy lacking the dust jacket. Author's first novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Owner's neat three-line ink inscription dated 1941 on front flyleaf and her bookplate on the front pastedown, a very good or better copy, with the binding quite fresh and bright, in very good pictorial dust jacket lightly chipped at the spine ends. Author's first novel. … Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Slight tanning on front flyleaf at inner hinge, few faint soil marks at fore-edge of title page, else a near fine, bright copy lacking the dust jacket. Author's first novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1938. First edition of Sarton's first novel; 8vo, pp. [8], [3]-241; dust jacket a bit soiled, corners worn, and cracks and shallow chips at the spine ends; very good. The copy inscribed to Conrad Aiken and his wife and cat: "For Conrad and Mary / and Jeakes / from / May / Feb.… Read more about this item

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1991. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

W. W. Norton & Company, 7/17/1991. First, thus. paperback. Like New. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. 1st printing. A good to fair only reader's copy in full cloth binding, well rubbed, darkly toned and spotted. Info sheet about Sarton taped onto rear pastedown. Text all unmarked. 241pp.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition (no additional printings indicated). Binding firm but with a modest spine lean, very light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, offsetting to the endpapers from newspaper clippings, dampstain to the right edge of the title page. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, some stains verso, shallow chipping… Read more about this item

New York:: Norton,, 1991.. Very good in wrappers (some toning to the pages, curling to covers.).. First thus- a trade paperback. Sarton's first novel, originally published in 1938.

FE. SARTON, May. THE SINGLE HOUND. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition of May Sarton's first novel. Bottom edge of text has a thin ink blotch, effecting only nine leaves at end of text. Else a near fine copy in a dust jacket with nicks and short tears to edges and a little light soil.

"The Single Hound", a novel by May Sarton. W.W. Norton & Company 1991 Paperback edition. 241pp. Very Good unmarked and tightly bound book with tanned pages. "This is a story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman known to the world as Jean Latour, the other a young Englishman."