TRUST by Ozick, Cynthia - 1966

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Near Fine books in Very Good jackets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition. Four volumes in jackets, 317 pp. [Rolling Stones], 153 pp.[Heart of the West, v2], 221 pp.[The Voice of the City], 164 pp. [Whirligigs]. Near fine to fine 16mo volumes, bright, tight, and handsome in purple cloth with bright gilt imprinting on the spines. Trace edgewear on a couple of them. Scarce dustjackets are well worn at corners and edges, and show spine discoloration, but are complete, including the $.90 price notation. About-VG jackets. Bookplate of Kathryn Davis on front pastedown of all four. A nice early collectible format of O. Henry titles, the Doubleday Page 1925 Biographical Edition was handsomely bound, the jackets bore praise from contemporary literary luminaries, and each ffep carried a Henry quotation. One sample: "I am… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Fair. First Edition, same date of 1941 on title and copyright pages, no additional printings; grey/beige cloth, vg- (cocked; top edge darkened; spine ends and corners bumped; boards soiled; discoloration to eps from dj) in a fair first-state dj. Apparently no copies better than about 'good' of this dj exist, due to its ill-advised design. This one has the window, with rippled edges, still attached to the black paper at the bottom and the left side towards the spine (with some tears). The top of the front panel is missing, and the front flap (with $2.00 price) is detached. Elsewhere there are many chips and tears, but the text (blurb by Louis Untermeyer) on the rear panel is intact; tears repaired on inside by non-acidic Filmoplast. 183 pp.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). viii,402pp, 6pp of publishers adverts. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by James Craig. Publishers 1st issue binding of grey cloth, with light green lettering and design of Marble arch, blocked in blue, green and mustard, to the front panel. The spine is lettered in gilt within a green ruled border. Top edge gilt. A little minor rubbing to the extremities and the front inner hinge is cracked but firm. Overall a better than very good copy of this uncommon novel. (Glover and Greene; Victorian Detective Fiction. No. 303). Not in Wolff.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985. Inscribed by the author: Robertson Davies for Viola Sullivan. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket with edge-wear that is common to this title.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Near Fine books in Very Good jackets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition. Four volumes in jackets, 317 pp. [Rolling Stones], 153 pp.[Heart of the West, v2], 221 pp.[The Voice of the City], 164 pp. [Whirligigs]. Near fine to fine 16mo volumes, bright, tight, and handsome in purple cloth with bright gilt imprinting on the spines. Trace edgewear on a couple of them. Scarce dustjackets are well worn at corners and edges, and show spine discoloration, but are complete, including the $.90 price notation. About-VG jackets. Bookplate of Kathryn Davis on front pastedown of all four. A nice early collectible format of O. Henry titles, the Doubleday Page 1925 Biographical Edition was handsomely bound, the jackets bore praise from contemporary literary luminaries, and each ffep carried a Henry quotation. One sample: "I am… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). viii,402pp, 6pp of publishers adverts. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by James Craig. Publishers 1st issue binding of grey cloth, with light green lettering and design of Marble arch, blocked in blue, green and mustard, to the front panel. The spine is lettered in gilt within a green ruled border. Top edge gilt. A little minor rubbing to the extremities and the front inner hinge is cracked but firm. Overall a better than very good copy of this uncommon novel. (Glover and Greene; Victorian Detective Fiction. No. 303). Not in Wolff.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985. Inscribed by the author: Robertson Davies for Viola Sullivan. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket with edge-wear that is common to this title.

# 140 of 333 numbered copies signed by the author. First printing. Blue cloth with top edge gilt. Jacket has some foxing on the spine; chip at bottom edge of the front panel and tears at bottom of the spine. Slipcase has some sunning and a few scuffs.