J. P. Marquand Esquire: a Portrait in the Form of a Novel by Philip Hamburger - 1953

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Yellow Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor shelfwear, clean and unmarked; yellow, w/black cloth spine. "A Portrait in the Form of a Novel".

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First Edition . Yellow Cloth. Good+/Fair. Minor shelfwear, light soing, inscription inside front cover. Jacket complete, quite edgeworn. "A Portrait in the Form of a Novel".

Robert Hale, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. First Edition. 114 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Quarter Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over gold-colored cloth covered boards, 114 pp. This reads like the double-distilled essence of all Marquand novels for a simple reason: Marquand has been a protagonist in his own books. It's all here: his youth, his fifteen-dollar-a-week days as a reporter for the Boston Transcript, and life as a struggling writer while married to the niece of the august, gentile Atlantic Monthly and finally success as a novelist. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Spine lettering a little dull else near fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears, mostly at the spine ends.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Bound in black cloth and yellow boards, stamped in gold with illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and Signed by the author in 1981. 114 pp. Chipping to extremes of dust jacket - affecting text to corner of back panel. . Inscribed and Signed. Firsr Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good.

London: Robert Hale, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Fine, faint foxing to the foredge and endpapers, in a near fine dustwrapper with slight soiling, chipping to the spine and flap folds, and a few small tears. A biographical novel about John P. Marquand, as Marquand himself might have written it.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1953. Some tears to the edges of the price-clipped dustwrapper, with a bit missing from the top rh corner at the back. Minor fading to the edges of the blue cloth boards, otherwise a good clean copy of this hard-cover novel, being the story of the life of the American writer J P Marquand, written in that author's style. 114pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.