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first edition first printing hardcover (The World Publishing Company, 1969); no dust jacket; prior owner title page corner; text has no prior owner marks but some pages have age tone, light soil; binding shaken but no loose pages; glazed illustrated boards worn at corners and spine ends (little fraying); panels have shelf rub (scratches);dust jacket missing SoWll

First English language edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Princeton 1953) INSCRIBED to a prior owner and SIGNED by Erich Auerbach front free end page; two text chapters show pencil margin brackets were erased; age tone to text pages, offsetting to end papers; tight bind; clean cloth cover, bright gilt titling; dj worn: sun fade to dj spine, rubbing to dj panels, and edge wear (chips to spine ends and corners); flap price present; scarce BO3amsbib

first edition (copyright 1949) later printing (September, 1953) hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages; sound binding; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; little compression at spine ends; dust jacket edge wear: few tears along panel edges, tears and shallow chips at spine ends, rubbing along folds and corners; flap price (3.50) present; BO1ambibeb

first edition first printing (Hogarth Press 1927) hardcover with a partial dust jacket (missing backstrip); no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages, offsetting to preliminary pages and end papers; sound binding; cloth cover has a little rub to panels, little wear to corners and spine ends; spine cloth a bit faded but gilt titling clear and legible; dust jacket in pieces: missing back strip, both dj flaps present but detached; remainder of jacket has tears and chips; no flap price as required for the first state jacket; age tone to jacket pieces; MSambibab

SIGNED: limited edition illustrated hardcover (Reynal and Hitchcock 1942)) No. 472 of 500 copies Signed by both the author and illustrator on the limitation page; no dust jacket issued; no slipcase; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; tight bind; 1/4 leather cover has light offsetting along the edges; leather spine has rub wear at the spine ends and along the spine; bright gilt titling; no slipcase B01ambibab

second printing French language hardcover in first state dust jacket (Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943); no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages, darkening, offsetting to paste-downs; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; dj has darkening along spine and edges; dj edge wear: rubbing along folds, small nicks at top corner tips, shallow chipping at spine ends; flap price present; publisher's address 386 Fourth Avenue, New York dskambibab

SIGNED: first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock, 1937) Signed by Lin Yutang on the front free end paper; no prior owner marks; little age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; short tear to cloth at spine head; dj edge wear: few short tears, little rubbing, shallow chip at spine head; flap price present dsk

first American edition first printing hardcover in first issue dust jacket (Scholastic Press 1998); prior owner front free end page corner, text unmarked; tight bind; 1/4 cloth cover has rub wear at spine ends and at corners (card stock visible), bright gilt titling; dj worn: compression, few short tears, small chips at spine ends and corner tips, a larger chip top back corner; flap price (16.95) present MSambibeb

first American edition first printing hardcover in variant blue dust jacket (Harcourt Brace 1949); no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; little rub at corner tips and spine ends; dj has slight sunning to spine, little soil to front panel and edge wear (rubbing along folds and at corners and spine ends, small nicks at corners and spine ends, shallow chipping at spine head); flap price present dsk

first edition first printing (first state points all present) hardcover in dust jacket (Covici Friede, 1937); prior owner name front paste-down corner, text unmarked; little age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover, vivid titling; minimal cover corner bump; dj has little darkening along spine, age tone, and edge wear (short tears/shallow chipping at spine ends and corners); dj flap corners all clipped; price also clipped B15

first edition first print hardcover in dust jacket (Viking, 1959); no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; tight bind; slight lean to spine;.clean cloth cover vivid titling; dust wrapper edge wear at head/heel of spine (little rubbing no tears); slim chip at top front corner; little rubbing front corners; flap price present dsk

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Dodd Mead, 1938); prior owner book plate front paste-down, prior owner small label half title page; front free end page has been removed; illustrated text unmarked; little age tone; binding sound but front hinge webbing shows from end page removal; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; dj edge wear--short tears, small chips at spine ends and corners; flap price present; scarce B22ambibeb

first American edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (New Directions 1958); prior owner front free end page corner, small price tag shadow front paste-down corner; text unmarked; minimal age tone; light dust top text block edge; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; dj edge wear: rubbing, few short tears, shallow spine end chipping; flap price clipped; scarce ambibeb

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Delacorte Press, 1969); no prior owner marks; minimal age tone to text pages, some foxing present to text block edge; tight bind; cloth cover has light offsetting to panel edges, bright gilt titling; dj age toned, sun darkened along spine; dj edge wear: rubbing, small nicks at corner tips, short tear at spine head; flap price present MS

first edition second state hardcover; no dust jacket; some soil to one blank sheet and offsetting to edges of end papers, otherwise the book is unmarked; little age tone; sound binding; pebbled cover has rub and bump to corners and spine ends, bright titling; no dust jacket HC14