limestone tree the signed limited de hergesheimer joseph (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition; First Printing. Good+ hardcover, numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page. Cover has some light shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 386 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy. He published over a dozen novels and several collections of short stories between 1914 and 1934. This is one of his later novels, partially published in 1929, but this limited edition by Knopf is stated to be a first edition. The frontispiece states "of the first edition of the Limestone Tree, Two hundred twenty-five copies have been printed on Borzoi rag paper, numbered from 1 to 225, each copy signed by the author. This is number 131." 8vo. Blue cloth-covered boards. Spine has sunned to a brown color. Title in silver to front cover and spine. No Dust jacket. Pristine interior. 386 pages. Literature. LIT912141.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good- condition. First Edition. American novel; 386p.; 24.2cm; blue cloth; pages uncut; #71 of 225; signed by author; dustjacket torn; slip-case broken, plastic taped. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. Limited Edition. 8vo. Pp. 386 followed by a bibliography of Hergesheimer's work and the colophon. Number 56 of 75 copies thus printed, numbered and signed. Printed on Shidzuoka japan vellum at the Plimpton Press. Silver silk bookmark. Bound in bright green japon paper with silver devices, lettering and rules on covers and spine. In the paper dust jacket and publisher's slipcase.Dust jacket worn at edges and folds, slipcase label entirely faded, and with the number 56 written in pen at the tail of spine, probably written by the publisher as it corresponds with this numbered copy. That said, the fragile binding has been well preserved by the slipcase and jacket, remains mostly unopened and appears as new. A particularly small limitation. Among the talented friends who circled around Alfred Knopf and H. L. Mencken, almost all had difficulties with alcohol, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James T. Farrell, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters and Joseph Hergesheimer, whose decision to stop writing, following this novel, willful or not, contributed to the decline of his once-proud literary reputation. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.