Raditzer

New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Two tiny stains to fore-edge of text block. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with very minor rubbing to the spine tips and corners. His third novel, fourth book. INSCRIBED for------ "with best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper in 1963. An uncommon… Read more about this item

Viking Adult, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.00 price intact). Published by Viking, 1961. Octavo. White cloth over blue boards stamped in blue. Signed, inscribed, and dated on half title page. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to endpapers… Read more about this item

NY: Viking Press, 1961. First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. The book has minor soiling to the white cloth at spine ends, and a faint erasure on front endpaper. The jacket has a little rubbing on the front flap fold, tiny chips at spine ends, and a little creasing… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. First printing Very good in 1/4 white cloth and blue paper covered boards with blue text stamping on the spine. The spine is soiled and the front board is somewhat bowed. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with light wear and flecking of the colors, creasing and short closed… Read more about this item

New York: Viking. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean and secure in original binding of cream cloth spine with navy blue boards; lower corners very clightly rounded in dustjacket with edgewear and chipping, now in mylar cover. Quite a decent example of the first edition of Matthiessen's third book.… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Viking, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy in a very good price-clipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by Peter Matthiessen directly on the front free endpaper--not on a bookplate--signature only without any inscriptions. Tight and clean--unread condition-the dustjacket is price clipped and has moderate edgewear to the head and heel of the… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 152 pages; Name on front free endpaper. Jacket with some rubbing, wear and a few short closed tears. .

New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 152 pages; Price clipped jacket with minor soiling, light rubbing and edgewear. .

[New York]: Dell, [1965]., 1965. First edition. First paperback edition. Signed by the author. Fine in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Velovsky. Author's second book, a powerful novel about a WWII Army transport corrupted by a strange and evil man. Makes The Caine Mutiny sound like a pleasure cruise, and evoked comparisons with Conrad and Melville from the… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 white cloth and blue paper covered boards with blue text stamping on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 3/8". In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a 1/8" deep chip at the upper rear corner of the spine area and with a… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1961. First edition. Few spots of very light foxing on endpapers and white spine, otherwise fine in dust jacket with only minor wear on corners and spine ends and a few soiled spots on white back panel.

New York: Viking, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Quarter white cloth over blue paper boards, blue spine lettering. Book near fine, dust jacket is price clipped with a little bit of wear at the edges and a faded spine. Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page, with a ticket from a book signing… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, (1962).. First UK edition.. 149 pp. '23 Feb-' inked to front free endpaper, top edge dusty; in all a very good plus copy in like dust jacket with a light fade to spine, some overall light edgewear and some light soiling to front panel. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Review slip laid in.

New York: Viking, 1961. First edition. 152 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in VG unclipped unfaded blue dust jacket with closed tears at top of inner front panel, by H. Lawrence Hoffman. First edition. 152 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

London: Heinemann. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Owners name in ink under . inside cover; clean tight binding; foredge has foxing; DJ is not price . clipped and has very slight edge wear;. 1962. First British Edition. Hardcover. Authors' third book; short novel about " the evil in some men drives out the good in others";… Read more about this item

NY: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. B0007DK9QA . First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very near fine in a very good (sun faded along the spine, minor edge wear, and a few short closed tears) dust jacket. .

NY: VIKING. 1961. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670589004 . Fine in priceclipped Vg. + DJ. (Top stain mildly faded. Faintly discernbile erasure on front end paper. 1/2"-inch tear at base of rear cover of jacket with small edge nicks. Trace of shelf wear at spine ends. ) Author's THIRD… Read more about this item

A very pretty copy of Matthiessen's increasingly uncommon 3rd novel, very nearly fine in dark blue boards with a white cloth backstrip; very minor offsetting to the edges of the front end paper. The nearly fine price-clipped dw exhibits minor edge wear to the spine extremities. Matthiessen has SIGNED the book inside the front board, and warmly INSCRIBED… Read more about this item

Heinemann, London., 1962. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 149. ''Raditzer was a dreg of a man, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward and a braggart'' (from the blurb).Fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and with a short closed tear at the head of the spine.

NY: Viking. Good. 1961. Hardcover. First edition. Foxing along spine and endpapers, boards slightly splayed, else good in cloth. No dust jacket. .