John Brown's Body by Benét, Stephen Vincent - 1960

Clean, unmarked copy with a slightly slanted spine and minor surface/edge wear. Nothing overly bad. First Elephant Books paperback edition, no print number indicated.

New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1954. BCE. Hardcover. Book club edition. A handsome, illustrated edition of Stephen Vincent Benét's lengthy Pulitzer Prize-winning poem of the American Civil War. With illustrations by Fritz Kredel and Warren Chappell, as well as decorations on most every page. --- In pale grey paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with image of mounted bugler to front cover and spine titling in orange. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Due to binder's error, some leaves are mis-cut, causing some material to be obscured. With mild age-toning to cloth and small bumps to cover corners, else a sound, unmarked copy. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.); 50649; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xvi, 368 pages .

(New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928). 8vo; original black cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 377. Backstrip sunned, and frayed at head and tail; some wear to extremities; binding slack; ex-library copy, with bookplate to front pastedown and code to title page; inscriptions to front free endpaper and its verso; some pencilled annotations. Fair condition. Long poem on experiences in the American Civil War. .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Edition statement: "First Edition/After the Printing of 201 De Luxe Copies". Full black cloth, gold ink titles on spine, [vi], 377 pp. Titles on spine dull, slight overall wear, book plate on front paste-down. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Trade. . VG-/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. 22nd edition; 184th thousand. Previous owner's name, dated May 1937, is written on the front pastedown. The endpapers are mildly foxed. In a square, sound binding with hinges intact. The dust jacket is soiled. Scuffed and darkened on the spine. Chipped at the spine tail. The price, $2.50, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Norwalk: Easton Press. CLEAN Fine Full Leather 1994 Easton Press. Notes from the Archives laid in. . Fine. Full Leather. Famous Editions. 1994.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1928 Boldly flat-signed on the upper edge of the 1/2 title. Bds are worn. Owner sig. to the front fep dated March, 1929. This is not the limited edition.

New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., 1980. 360 pp. 26.5 x 19 cm. Red and wine colored cloth covered boards with titling to orange label on front cover and gilt titling to spine, in dustjacket with illustration on spine, housed in a red cloth covered slipcase. Possible soiling to edges of boards of slipcase at head and tail of opening, otherwise no apparent flaws. Some sunning to spine of jacket, with 25 mm closed compression tear, a few small splash marks, and one 5 mm nick to tail of spine. Light rubbing to head and tail of spine of book, with light bumps to corners of rear board. Signed by Moser on title page in red ink. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding nice and firm. A lovely copy. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping will be requested for expedited and international orders. . Signed by Illustrator. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Moser, Barry.

Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. Second Edition. blue decorated cloth. Good. Presentation Copy SIGNED by the Author, dated "21 Nov. 1929." 8vo, blue cloth with decorated labels of Civil War soldiers, [377] pages. Rare Presentation Copy by the prominent early 20th century poet, Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943), of his most famous book-length poem about the Civil War. Benét won the Pulitzer Prize for this memorable poem (1928) named after the song about the great Martyr for Emancipation, John Brown. Decorated colorful endpapers. Binding tired, corners slightly bumped, lower cap abraded. Labels browned.