For Authors Only and Other Gloomy Essays

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good+ Condition/Good. Illustrator: Robert B. Haberstock. Book A collection of 19 essays, including the title essay in which Roberts criticizes the Pulitzer Prize Committee for awarding the prize intended for novels dealing with American life and standards to works that lacked an… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Later printing.. Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Later printing. Very Good+/Good+. Later printing of the First Edition, inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with blind-stamped diamond and star decoration on cover and spine, bright gold anchor, quill and telescope… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1935 This FIRST EDTION hard cover is in VERY GOOD + CONDITION, with a dust jacket in VG condition, showing some edge wear/tear/chips, protected in a mylar cover. AUTHORS INSCRIPTION reads "With Best Wishes, Kenneth Roberts". 446pp with 4 pp of publisher ads, bound in blue cloth with blind stamped design,… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. Blue cloth hardcover with blindstamped design on front cover and spine, bright gilt design on front cover, bright gilt lettering on spine, 446 pages plus ads, top edge blue, lower corners are very slightly bumped, spine ends very slightly bumped and or rubbed, not frayed, book is very slightly cocked from leaning… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Linecut Illustrations by Robert E. Haberstock. Octavo. Front flyleaf has small, faint surface abrasion else a fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several small nicks and tears with a faint, small tape mend. Scarce.

NY: DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO.. AUTHOR'S SIGNED BOOKPLATE: "FOR OSWALD TRAIN WITH BEST WISHES." ALSO SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO FFEP. CHIP TO UNCLIPPED DJ. . VG. Hardcover. STATED FIRST EDITION. 1935.

1935. ROBERTS, Kenneth. FOR AUTHORS ONLY AND OTHER GLOOMY ESSAYS. Illustrated by Robert B. Haberstock. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935. Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf. 446 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Near fine, faint stain to blue top edge, faint age toning to text. In very good dust jacket, price-clipped,… Read more about this item

Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, Inc. Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Spine has light wear around edges. Spine is beginning to crack at front endpaper. .

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968. Fine. Reprint. Fine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. Blue cloth. Ex-library, light cover rubbing and wear: VG/no dj. 8vo. Linecut illustrations by Robert R. Haberstock. First edition so stated