HENRY, O PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (12 résultats)

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Green coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and self embossed decoration to the backstrip. Gilt to the top text edge. 23 short stories from New York. Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Tanning and staining of the textblock edges with age toning of the pages. The free front end page has been removed! Offset tanning and some foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. Cracking of the hinge between the free front end page (or where it should be) and half title page, with underlying webbing visible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 310, [4] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0129759.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Green coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and self embossed decoration to the backstrip. Gilt to the top text edge. 18 short stories inspired by The Walrus and the Carpenter from Alice in Wonderland. Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Marks and stains to the book panels. Tanning and staining of the textblock edges with age toning of the pages. The free front end page has been removed! Offset tanning and some foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3 - 312 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0129758.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Green coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and self embossed decoration to the backstrip. Gilt to the top text edge. A further 23 short stories from the author. Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Tanning and staining of the textblock edges with age toning of the pages. The free front end page and half title page are missing! Cracking of the hinge between the free front end page (or where it should be) and half title page, with underlying webbing visible. Some foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 3 - 312, [2] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0129761.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Black and white photographic frontispiece showing a group of men in boater hats. Green coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles and self embossed decoration to the backstrip. Gilt to the top text edge. Another 25 short stories about New York. Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Tanning and staining of the textblock edges with age toning of the pages. The free front end page has been removed! Offset tanning and some foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 3 - 244, [6] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0129757.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1.1 kg; 1128 pages in original light blue cloth with titling to the front panel and the spine. Very slight rubbing to the base edge of the boards and either side of be back strip. Agent darkening of the edges of the text block, otherwise no damage to the report. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0227719.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Joseph Ciardiello (illustrateur). Reissued, 1st thus. the book is second-hand, there is no damage to describe. Bound in imitation leather spine, with very dark brown cloth covered boards, illustrated on the front panel and with gilt decoration. Illustrated with a number of plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 246 pages, including an after-word. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Joseph Ciardiello. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0277763.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Reprint. 850 g; 1140 pages, in original dark green boards with gilt titling on the front and spine panels. "I am working on the assumption that the majority of the readers of this book will be Britishers. And there are undoubtedly a number of his Yarm's -- it would be strange if it were not so -- in which the appeal is essentially more American than English. A gang to take a simple parallel. The best cricket story in the world is not likely to sell in America, and very few English publishers would tackle a book with baseball as its main theme. The stories of O. Henry's I have left out." -- page 9 the dust jacket has a number of short tears across both top and bottom, and some loss from chipping, and is price clipped. The book is clean without annotation. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0285363.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-376 [note: first leaf is a blank], original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in red. First edition, first printing. Title story is an ironic fantasy. See Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1289z. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-513. BAL 16277. Early owner's name and address in pencil on front free endpaper. Cloth worn at spine ends and lower front corner tip, spine panel just a bit darkened, a very good copy. (#160865).

Octavo, original orange cloth stamped in black. First edition. Posthumous collection of short stories, burlesques, poems and whimsies published in the HOUSTON DAILY POST in 1895 and 1896, with an introduction by Florence Stratton. Not in Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925. BAL 16304 (noted binding B). Neat owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in good decorated dust jacket with a few short tears and shallow chips at edges and internal tape ghosts at spine ends. (#133487).

Octavo, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Alice Barber Stephens, original red cloth stamped in gold and blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's third collection of short fiction. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-517. BAL 16273. Top edge of text block dusty, a bright, tight, near fine copy. A nice copy. (#133491).

New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Original dark brown cloth pictorially decorated in light green, pale grey, and white. First Edition of this collection of nineteen tales sited in the American West, by this master of the short story -- known for often-dark humor and an ironic twist at the end. As the publisher McClure was wont to do (see his 1903 edition of Conan Doyle's RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES), the binding is a dark cloth stamped with light-colored pigments -- which was unfortunate, as those pigments almost inevitably flake off, over time. This near-fine copy is much better than most, since (except for a little erosion of the author's and publisher's names on the spine), there is no flaking of that light green and grey and white pigment. Blanck 16274. Provenance: bookplate of the great collector H. Bradley Martin, whose library was sold by Sotheby's over the course of nine sales in 1989-1990.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 14 volumes. "Memorial Edition" and "Edition deluxe." Number 403 of 1,075 copies. Vol. 1 has an extra half-title, engraved: "Memorial edition," with vignette and pencil signature: "Doubleday, Page and Co." also signed by the illustrator, Gordon Grant, on the frontispiece of the first volume. 8vo. (24 cm.), frontispieces, plates. Uniformly custom-bound in full dark blue morocco by Thomas W. Best (Best was a Boston bookseller and at one time a part owner of Harcourt Bindery. Gilt titles, gilt lines on five spine compartments, on both covers and on dentelled edges; silk end sheets; t.e.g. Rubbing and starting primary to joints of front cover but all in all the bindings are tight and sound; spines gradually have faded to brown. From the library of a prominent, early 1900s Clevelander with his bookplate. Contents: I. Cabbages And Kings.--II. The Four Million.--III. The Trimmed Lamp.--IV. Heart Of The West.--V. Voice Of The City.--VI. The Gentle Grafter.--VII. Roads Of Destiny.--VIII. Options.--IX. Strictly Business.--X. Whirligigs.--XI. Sixes And Sevens.--XII. Rolling Stones.--XIII. Wind Of Destiny.--XIV. Waifs And Strays, Twelve Stories, Together With A Representative Selection Of Critical And Biographical Comment. Postage may be extra on this item.