The Hard Blue Sky

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. NF/VG-. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with chipping to the spine and corners and lightly sunned spine (see photos). Protected in… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner signature on front pastedown ("E.M Raney, Duncan House, Aug 1958"), else fine in a near fine dust jacket with very light wear and a hint of sunning on the spine. Grau's second book and first novel set on a small, wind-swept island off the Louisiana coast.… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Novel of hardscrabble life on a Louisiana coastal island; Grau's first novel and second book, after a collection of short stories. Light wear to book; jacket (art by George Salter) shows light edgewear, short tears, small chips, minor spine fade, $5.00 price intact. Text clean; [1], v, blank, 466, blank leaf, [2] pages. .… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket designed by George Salter. One page lacking top corner, a few other pages with a diagonal slice through the first several lines of text (not obscuring the text), thus very good in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, a few… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Owner bookplate on front fly, faint spotting on the spine, about near fine in a very good dust jacket with modest edgewear and rubbing, and a lightly toned spine. Set on a small, wind-swept island off the Louisiana coast. Grau's second book and first novel. … Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Near fine, boards slightly cocked, in a near fine dustwrapper with chipping to the spine and flap folds. Set on a small, wind-swept island off the Louisiana coast. Grau's second book and first novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Used; Very Good/Fair. DJ with many tears and chips is now protected in plastic. Novel describes an eventful summer in Isle aux Chiens off the Louisiana coast.

Random House, 1958T. hardcover. Good. 1.3000 8.3000 5.7000. first edition book, tiny amount of wear on the dust jacket (sealed in protective plastic), tiny amount of wear along the edges of the cover of the book

NY 1958 1st Knopf. 8vo., 466pp., hardcover. Near Fine in VG DJ, light wear.

New York: Alfred Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 8vo. Quarter oatmeal cloth spine over boards. Stated first edition. 466 pp. First printing of the author's second book and first novel. A handsome very good or better copy in lightly used price-intact dustwrapper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good in good dustwrapper. Pages light yellow from age, clean text. Dog-ears on a couple of pages. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped. Edges of dustwrapper worn and torn. Dustwrapper spine faded. Dustwrapper shelf rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another… Read more about this item

London etc., Heinemann, 1959. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 1st edition . Hardcover. Very good condition/good. Howard Rogers. 466p. Author's first novel

Random House, 1958-06. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine in VG+ price-clipped dustjacket. Jacket design by George Salter. Grau's first novel, which is set on the Isle aux Chiens off the coast of Louisiana.

Alfred Knopf, 1968. Cloth. Fine/Near Very Good. (3d ptg.) Slightly smaller, sturdy book, light brown cloth with embossed initials at bottom front right, red, blue and black background on spine to lettering, bookplate on first front end paper, light brown lines too, 466 pages. DJ beneath mylar with color-illustration of main characters and blue background, b/w photo on… Read more about this item

Random House. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Louisiana State University Press, 2001-04. Paperback. Good.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf. Good/No Jacket. 1958. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Ex-Library (E87) .