Clayton Fine Books

Our Dissolving Ethics in "The Atlantic Monthly" (November 1926)

Adams, James Truslow

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

VG 0 Very good in wrappers showing light wear to edges, some wear to spine and crease to back cover. Interior is free of both foxing and fading. Also, "What Really Happened: Notes on the Battle of Jutland" by Hector C. Bywater.

What Really Happened: Notes on the Battle of Jutland in "The Atlantic Monthly" (November 1926)

Bywater, Hector C.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

VG 0 Very good in wrappers showing light wear to edges, some wear to spine and crease to back cover. Interior is free of both foxing and fading. Also, "Our Dissolving Ethics" by James Truslow Adams.

Guests of the Nation: A Story in "Atlantic Monthly" (January 1931)

O'Connor, Frank

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

VG 0 Short story. Very good in wrappers. Library stsamps to front, some wear to edges of panels, no foxing nor notable fading to interior.

View from the Catacombs (Cover Story on John Updike, review of "Couples") in Time Magazine (April 26, 1968)

Updike, John

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Good 0 Good in wrappers. Sticker to cover in lower left-hand corner, 1 short tear to bottom edge, some wear to edges. Article has many b&w photos of Updike, including one of his young family, and one of his parents.

Regarding Henry: Collecting Henry Miller in "Biblio" (February 1997)

Young, Robert, Jr. (Henry Miller)

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Fine 0 Fine in wrappers. Also, article "Hay-on-Wye: Inaugural Book Town."

Shopgirls in "Esquire" (January 1981)

Barthelme, Frederick

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

VG 0 Very good in wrappers with sticker to front, light rubbing and fading, gentle crease to upper corner of most pages inside and back cover.

Practical English and Effective Speech

Hunter, Estelle B. · 1936

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Fine Better Speech Institute of America Chicago 0 Fine in wrappers, 15 32-page booklets in fine box. This is in remarkably excellent condition, appears to have never been read. A practical self-teaching tool on learning English grammar and speech, still applicable today.

Fundamental Problems of Composing with Colors (in Chinese)

1994

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Fine Very Good 0 Near fine (light wear to extremities of boards) in gray, yellow and black dust jacket showing light wear to edges and some rubbing. 213 p., color reproductions on every page. Volume in the "Basic Art & Dseign (sic) Series."

The Gonzaga Documents in "Discovery No. 4"

Bellow, Saul; Vance Bourjaily (Editor) · 1955

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

VG First Edition Pocket Books New York 0 Very good in wrappers showing some wear to extremiities. Also includes pieces by Anatole Broyard and Jack Jones.

A Free Life: A Novel

Ha Jin · 2007

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Fine Advance Reader's Edition Pantheon 0 Fine in wrappers.

Tantivy Towers: A Light Opera in Three Acts

Herbert, A.P. · 1931

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Alajalov VG Fair First Edition Doubleday, Doran Garden City 0 Very good in red cloth-coverd borards and black spine, light soiling to page edges, light wear to top and bottom spine. Dust jacket in two pieces with bottom half of spine and top 1/3rd of back missing. Illustratio...

The Ploughshares Poetry Reader: The Best Poems by Our Best Contemporary Poets

Peseroff, Joyce (editor); Contributors: Seamus Heaney, Mona Van Duyn, Charles Simic, Denise Levertov,Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, Donald Hall · 1987

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Fine First Edition Meredian New York 0 Near fine in wrappers. Light soiling to pages edges, o/w fine. Incredible collection of poetry by twentieth-century major poets writing in English.

Seize the Day

Bellow, Saul · 1959

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

VG First Edition Popular Giant New York 0 Very good in illustrated wrappers with only light wear to extremities and rubbing to back panel.

The Old Man and Lesser Mortals

King, Larry L. · 1974

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

VG Very Good First Edition Viking New York 0 Very good in very good dust jacket. Book shows light wear to panels edges and soiling to bottom ocrner of pages and dusting to top edge. Dust jacket has light wear to edges and one very small short tear to top of spine.

Heyday: A Novel

Kurt Andersen · 2007

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Fine Fine Signed First Edition Random House 0 Fine in fine dust jacket with signature of author on title page.

Pushcart Prize, Xiii: Best of the Small Presses, 1988-1989

Ford, Richard · 1988

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Near Fine Near Fine Signed First Edition Pushcart Press New York 0 Near fine (red dot and small light smudge to bottom edge, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket (light rubbing and light soiling to back). Signed by Ford at top of first page of his introduction.

Quarterly Review of Literature: 30th Anniversary Prose Retrospective

Weiss, T. and R. (Editors), contributors: Jorge Luis Borges, H.D., W. S. Merwin, Anton checkhov, Ralph Ellison, John Gardner, · 1975

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Fine Quarterly Review of Literature Princeton 0 Near fine in wrappers (light wear to panel extremities and page edges).

40 Best Stories from Mademoiselle 1935-1960

, contributors Faulkner, Flanney O'Connor, Ionesco, Paul Bowles, Albert Camus, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren · 1960

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Fine Very Good First Edition Harper New York 0 Near fine (soiling to bottom corner edges of pages and dusting to top edge) in very good price-clipped jacket and in worn slipcase (split).

Michael Collier Hosts Li-Young Lee: The Writing Life

Lee, Li-Young (Collier, Michael) · 1996

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Fine First Edition Howard County Poetry and Literature Society Columbia 0 30-minute video as new in as new case with photo of Lee by Paul Elledge on the front.

The Luck of the McElroys

Kooistra, Mary Ellen · 1946

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Sula, Karel and Billie Very Good Very Good Saalfield Akron 0 Very good in very good dust jacket. Light wear to both.