Burnett Whit Hallie Editors (27 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition from 1962. Originally published in hard covers in the UK by MacGibbon & Kee in 1959. Copyright date given as 1949 so there was presumably a US edition around that time. Spine has reading creasing, edge rubbing and chipping at the top and bottom with small tears at the top and bottom next to the front cover. The covers have small creases to the corners and light surface marking. The page edges are browned with a small stain to the fore edges and a pen mark across the top edges. The pages are browned with some insect damage to the top corners at the front and back of the book but are otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 1" x 1/2" piece missing from top front panel of DJ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 589 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. [1st printing] Nov. 1954; #EB28. Cover art is uncredited. Paperback original. Includes "Introduction"; "The Green Palms" by Robert Payne; "The Greatest Thing in the World" by Norman K. Mailer; "Congo" by Stuart Cloete; "The Drag" by Frederick Darling; "The Door Between" by James Wyckoff; "Twenty-one - Twenty-two" by Vernon Loggins; "There Are Worse Places" by Shepard Rifkin; "Sawdust" by Arthur Foff; "The Man" by Mel Dinelli; "The Unbowed Head" by Fred E. Ross. Early pages hinges look weak; one page proud and worn at foredge; heavy edgewear; creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Condition: DJ price-clipped, heavily nicked & chipped with tape-repaired tears; else very good in fair DJ. Pages: xi, 236.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Vintage Paperback. Bantam A1550. Sharp unread Second Printing of this Paperback original anthology, January, 1957. $.35 cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout with very mild page toning. Only a hint of edge-wear and a shallow dog-ear on the top front corner. Fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. Stories by Dunsany, Norton, Maugham, Steinbeck and many others. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. xvi, [2], 589 p.; 22 cm. Black and blue cloth with gilt-on-red spine title. Dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by editor and author Whit Burnett on front free endpaper. Contains 50 short stories published in Story magazine over 33 years, arranged alphabetically by author from Sherwood Anderson to Cornell Woolrich. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly shaken; clean and solid. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: slightly rubbed; ends of spine slightly creased; faint stain at upper righthand corner of front section; solid.

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge foxed, bookseller's label on the front paste-down, o/w very good in like price-clipped dustjacket. A fine selection of the vibrant writing from America in the 1940s, with stories by Mailer, Salinger, Prokosch, Capote, Faulkner, Bunin and others. A second volume followed in this series a few years later.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. A collection of 50 stories from the first 33 years of Story magazine, arranged alphabetically by author from Sherwood Anderson to Cornell Woolrich. Includes contributions from Truman Capote, Kay Boyle, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Mary O'Hara, Graham Greene , Henry Treece, Cornell Woolrich, Evan Hunter, Carson McCullers, Dawn Powell and many others. Includes a foreword by the editors and a chronological memo on the magazine. xvi, 589 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. (minor wea, original price of 5.95 on dj flap).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages are slightly browned. ; Contents include Saroyan's Paris by William Saroyan, The Wind in the Long Grass by Jeb Stuart; and others. ; 128 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. Covers are detached but present. Spine is faded. ; Contents include Sam Small's Better Half by Eric Knight; Still Life by James Ramsey Ullman; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Condition is good minus. Spine has general wear and chipping to the ends. Covers have rubbing and some slight creasing. ; Contents include Accident by James T. Farrell; Nothing Can Change It by Charles Cooke; and others.

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 241 pages.

Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Not Illustrated (illustrator). New York, NY: A. A. Wyn, Inc. G/G. (1952). . Cloth/Boards w/DJ. 8vo., 289 pp., Rubbing, foxing, yellowing, pencil marks, DJ spine faded .

Popular Library G352. Very Good condition. Reprints EB28.

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/FR. No Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc. G/FR. (1951). Cloth(Hrdcvr). 8vo., 236 pp, dj frayed and yellowed some, pages yellowed some .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover with Very good dust jacket. Later printing. Pages and cover clean. Couple tears on top end of dust jacket spine. Dustwrapper lightly yellowing from age.

Condition: Good. David McKay Company New York 1951 hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Powers, Richard (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st printing. Mass market paperback original. Ballantine 466K. A copy with no creases or stress lines, a slight lean to the spine, light wear at the edges, darkened paper and cover stock, and a small scuff at the bottom of the back cover.

Hardcover. 8vo. Green paper over boards, dust jacket. ix, 236pp. Very good/very good. Light jacket edgewear, with spine lightly sunned. Tight, nice first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chip at top of spine; rubbing at edges). Very good. 246 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Paperback. 8vo. Stiff printed wrappers. 317pp. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine. Handsome first edition of the third in this series, "The Best Creative Work from the Universities and Colleges of the United States & Canada" as judged by Gwendolyn Brooks, Mark Van Doren and a slew of noted critics. Fiction, poetry, biography, journalism and essays are all included, and this tight copy is inscribed and signed by one of the published essayists (Arthur E. Nolletti, Jr., second prize for "Hard Times for the Femme Fatale"): Half-title page is inscribed and signed in black fineline for "Tom (Monsieur le Perk), / It's all here, buried in essay form -- / our friendship, past, present, future, / Jean's career, and even Sister Luke's / dog reminding us 'We must.' We / will always be as we are today, or you / can damn well bet when we pick / up where we've left off, the transitions / will be invisible. / As always, / Art / August 18, 1970.".

Soft cover. Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 36, issue 5. Pages age-toned, thus very good in wrappers. Signed by Margaret Widdemer at her article about meeting Marianne Moore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Random House, New York, 1963. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy, with price ($4.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Book is fine but for light foxing on edges and bump to upper corner of rear board. Jacket has light wear to extremities and a small water stain on upper corner of rear panel (as pictured). Contributions from seventeen writers, most notably William R. Hjortsberg ("Sometimes Horses Don't Come Back", his first publication), Joel E. Siegel ("All Kinds of Love"), Mark Medoff ("One Blind Mouse", to-be winner of a Tony and Olivier, and nominee for an Academy Award, for Children of a Lesser God), and Mike Thelwell (a.k.a. Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, "Direct Action"). F2000A.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Trace of faint shelf soiling at top edge. Editor's name inked at base of spine on jacket. Ink stamp of Revue productions on front & rear end-papers. ) Writer William Hjortberg's first publication. ; 241 pages.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood copy with tan pages. Some pages torn close to binding, tear in spine. Contributors: Kay Boyle, Stewart Allen, Malcolm Foster?