While Rome Burns

New York: Viking Press, 1934. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 328pp. A very good copy in the publisher's red cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Spine gilt gently faded, bottom corners tapped, and the spine cocked, else a clean, sound copy. SIGNED by Woollcott on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. A typed letter, SIGNED by… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1934. Thirteenth Printing in the year of publication. Large octavo; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; viii,328pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a number of short closed tears never approaching text, tiny soil spot to front panel,… Read more about this item

Viking, New York, 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". viii + 328pp. Text contains some pencil markings. Chips to spine ends. Front hinge cracked. Tear to pre-title. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Corners bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; Modern; Pictures… Read more about this item

A #1 nonficiton best seller in 1934. This is a collection of essays, often humorous, first published in the New Yorker magazine or elsewhere. This volume, published in 1936, was part ofthe 18th printing. Red cloth cover shows wear at the corners, top and bottom of the spine and all along the lower edges. No dust jacket. Deckle-edged pages are… Read more about this item

Viking, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. Signed Limited Edition (Copy #118 of 500). Published by Viking, 1934. Octavo in slipcase. Tan cloth boards with gold embossed author caricature to front panel, silver stamped spine lettering, red topstain and satin sewn-in bookmark. Signed by Alexander Woollcott on limitation page in front (flat signed, not inscribed).… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1934. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. America's favorite raconteur here offers a generous selection of his best horror stories, anecdotes, personal portraits, legendary tales, and reminiscences.

Viking Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Seventh Printing (January 1936). Not price-clipped ($2.75 price intact). Published by Viking Press, 1934. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends and… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1934. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Bottom edge shelfworn, spine darkened, cloth tone, otherwise light wear; lacks its slipcase. Solid oversize hardcover. ; Signed Limited Edition, # 388 of 500 copies of First Edition printed on all-rag paper and autographed by author. A surprise best-selling… Read more about this item

WOOLLCOTT, ALEXANDER. While Rome Burns. 8vo. Original tan cloth with vertical purple line and embossed copper-colored circle on front cover; enclosed in edge-worn, faded slipcase, Viking Press. New York 1934. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies signed by the author. This is copy #482. Slipcase has "482" written on the spine in white ink; head and heel of book spine… Read more about this item

NY: Viking. Very Good- with no dust jacket; SIGNED by N C Wyeth, from personal . library; No marks, clean tight binding; red cloth binding with gilt . lettering; slightly faded spine with two small tears at top of spine;. 1934. First Edition; Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Signature of NC Wyeth, "Constance Wyeth, 1934" on fep; one of fifteen books… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. FIRST EDITION. A neatly written owner inscription on the rear free endpaper notes the circumstances of Woollcott's death. Some glue residue on front pastedown from removed bookplate, else a tight, near fine copy with bright red cloth, in a near fine dust jacket with some tanning to spine and with a tiny… Read more about this item

Viking Press, 1934. hardcover. hardcover. very good: spine sunned, text clean, binding tight and square, mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate on front pastedown, flat signed by author on FFEP/no DJ. 8vo 328pp. 10th printing, August 1934. Collection of Woollcott's writings for The New Yorker--portraits, anecdotes, reminiscences, includes accounts of his travels to Japan and Russia.  … Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1945. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. There is half a publisher's sticker on the front cover; the half title page has minor loss to the top right hand corner as well as a booksellers stamp. Nearly a very good copy with no major faults bar old age. One of the… Read more about this item

London : Penguin , 1940. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. third impression, paperback, 247 pages, pages tanned, very good in browned otherwise good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B172.

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies printed on all-rag paper, specially bound and signed by the author. A particularly fine fresh copy in original glassine jacket and publisher's box (box expertly repaired along two seams). Beautiful edition of this title by one of the key members of the Algonquin round table.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1937. First Edition; Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. Chip to jacket crown at front panel. Tear to jacket crown at rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Viking, 1934. later printing. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; clean, no wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; toned, faint stains and chips. Mem. Stax.

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. First limited, signed edition. One of 500 copies, this being no. 378, signed on limitation page by Alexander Woollcott. Off-white cloth w ith circular copper on-lay on front cover. Backstrip toned to light brown. Lacks original slipcase. Very good.. Limted/numbered/signed. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1936. First Edition; Eighteenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges. Few small open teras. Owner name on FEP. .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1936. First Edition; Eighteenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1 inch open tear at top of front gutter. .