USHANT by Conrad Aiken - 1952

World Pub. Co, 1962. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, Boston: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, ( 1952 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 365 pages, black cloth; dj chipped, short tears, toned - as usual This is Aiken's autobiography. Is it a novel? a confession? an autobiography?

Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's silver-titled cloth, red topstain. Stated first edition. Ffep a little soiled, faint tape marks to endpages, block edge insected. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, slightly chipped/toned, interior tape to edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

US: Duell, Sloan and Pearce/ Little, Brown, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Different cover than shown in Amazon photo. Pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are clean. Light wear to extremities. Binding is square and tight. Dust jacket has mild to moderate rubbing, toning and creasing to edges, corners and ends of spine; fading to spine. Dust jacket is covered in protective mylar jacket. Pictures available upon request.

NY/Boston: Duell Sloan Pearce/Little Brown. (1952). An "autobiographical narrative" in experimental prose, defying the conventions of standard autobiography or memoir; the essay is narrated by a character named "D.," who was the main character, Demarest, of Aiken's first novel, Blue Voyage, in 1927. Binder's glue shadows at the joints; a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a crease to the rear panel and an open tear at the top edge there.

USHANT, DSP & L-B, 1952, first edition., fine in vg+ dust-wrapper save for a couple of short tears. An autobiographical narrative.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn, page tops spotted.. 1971. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 0195014529 . Red cloth. Printed slip laid in indicating that the book was sent with the compliments of the author. Aikens autobiography, told in the third person, originally published in 1952, and revised in this edition with its cast of characters revealed (Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Malcolm Lowry, John Gould Fletcher) and with many illustrations and photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages .

New York and Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Cloth. Very Good +/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 365pp. Top edge of textblock dyed red w two light splash stains (colour loss), no penetration into textblock. Crisp silver lettering on black cloth cover and spine, relief lettering in silver title panel on spine. No edgewear, mild bumping to corners. Binding square and sound. Titled DJ shows soiling commensurate w age and handling, 1.5cm triangular chip to top front edge, 1.5cm loss to head, and is price-clipped. DJ now preserved in archival cover. Octavo.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. [xii], 365pp. Offsetting to the endpapers, foxing to the edges, and bumping to the spine ends, very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with foxing and toning. An autobiographical narrative.