BLOOD FOR A STRANGER by Jarrell, Randall - 1942

N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. x, 82p. A very good copy with four tape-marks (none more than 1/2") on the endpapers and the former owner's signature on the front free endpaper, in a very good d.j. which has four tape-marks.. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the flaps, a few small chips and spots of rubbing at the edges and corners. Red buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Jarrell's first collection of poetry. This is Jarrell's only collection to be published before he joined the Army during World War II, an experience that informed much of his subsequent writing. Still, these poems don't express an entirely optimistic view of the world. As Elizabeth Drew writes in her 1942 review in The Atlantic, "Dying individuals, dying cultures, dying worlds haunt his poems, all crying for life but trapped in death.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. First Printing, one of 1,700 copies. Octavo (22.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in dark blue on spine; dustjacket; x,82,[2]pp. Thin horizontal stain to upper spine, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, and a touch of dust-soil to rear panel; Very Good+ or better. A well-preserved copy of this wartime publication, the National Book Award-winning author's first collection of poetry. WRIGHT A1.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/Good+. 82 p. 23 cm. Red cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has creases and some small tears. Small ink signature on front free endpaper. Jarrell's first book.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a near very good dustwrapper with some rubbing, age-toning, and tiny nicks. Jarrell's first book.

NY: Harcourt Brace & Company. VG+. 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in red cloth with blue spine lettering. 8vo, 82 pp . The author's first book. Book is VG+ with a small water spot at the very bottom edge of the spine. Cloth covers are otherwise clean and br ight. Inner gutters lightly tanned else fine inside. In a VG dj that h as tiny frays to the head of the spine and some dust soiling to the re ar panel and fold. .

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1942. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 82 pp., Former copy of poet John Frederick Nims with his signature, dated 1943, on the front free endpaper, Small triangular chip from upper front edge of dust jacket; spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Author's first book .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Some dampstaining to the boards, thus only good, in very good dustwrapper with a small chip and some tanning to the spine. Author John Malcolm Brinnin's copy with his ownership signature. Jarrell's first book.

New York:: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, [1942].. First edition; advance copy with publisher's printed slip tipped in.. publisher's red cloth in dust jacket.. Near fine in a jacket with a sunned spine and rear panel; some minor wear at edges.. 8vo,.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated), one of only 1700 printed, of Jarrell's first collection of poems. 8vo: xi,82pp. Publisher's crimson fine-bead cloth, spine lettered in navy blue; vivid red typographic dust jacket, lettered in white and priced $2.00. Fine and apparently unread; About Fine jacket (minimal fading to spine panel, lettering still crisp) that has benefited from minor expert restoration to spine panel tips (far from lettering on both ends). Wright A1. Heavily influenced by the poetry of W.H. Auden and dedicated to the American poet Allen Tate. Published the year Jarrell enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers… Read More