COSTAIN, THOMAS B. (ED) — Read with Me

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Book Club Edition. Quarter bound in publisher's green cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, brown endpapers. This is an anthology of short stories from 31 authors, all selected by Thomas B. Costain. The stories are by George Albee, Hervey Allen, William E. Barrett, Thomas Beer, Brendan Behan, Stephen Vincent Bemet, George Bradshaw, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Guy Endore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Gallico, Rumer Godden, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Geoffrey Household, MacKinley Kantor, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Mary McCarthy, John OHara, Dorothy Parker, Marjorie Pickthall, Katherine Anne Porter, J. B. Priestley, Damon Runyon, C. E. Scoggins, Vincent Sheean, P. G. Wodehouse, and Virginia Woolf.. Former owner's small label on fep, old price on ffep, some foxing on fore-edge only, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The dust jacket is lightly soiled along the edges, but is therwise fine, with no cuts or tears. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 623 pp. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .