Add this copy of A Rope for Dr. Webster to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Bruccoli Clark.
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Very Good. 8vo, red felt covered clamshell box opening up cord-tied 31 pp. story, last page affixed to the tray of the box, with underside of top having a label stating limitation of 350 copies signed (this is numberr 293). Box with some rubbing and grayness to edges, light wear to gold cover label, contents VG.
Add this copy of A Rope for Doctor Webster to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Bruccoli Clark.
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Near Fine. Copy XIII (13) of 50, signed by the author, and reserved for the author and publisher. 1976. Stringbound sheets in a velvet clamshell box. There is a small tear to the final page of text; otherwise a clean, sound copy. Some rubbing and discoloration to the velvet box. Although unmarked, this copy came from the collection of Matthew Bruccoli, the co-publisher. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series.
Add this copy of A Rope for Doctor Webster. (Signed) to cart. $86.93, very good condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1976 by Bruccoli Clark.
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First Edition. Bound Leaves In Box. No. A4A of a limited signed edition of 350 copies. 8vo. pp. 31. Frontispiece. 5 illustrations in the text. Contents bound with yellow cord and presented in a burgundy flock clamshell box with a gilt label mounted on lid lettered black. Signed and partly numbered by the author. Presentation copy: 'For Christopher Whelen / Jim 11 August 1976. ' Coloured photograph loosely inserted with pencil inscription on back stating it is of Cozzen's garden in Florida. A fact-based account of a 19th-century Harvard murder trial in which the evidence was purely circumstantial. James Gould Cozzens (1903 &endash; 1978) was an author who won the Pulitzer Prize. Cozzens had planned a series of essays on classic trials with his friend George Bradshaw while they were in the air force. This is the only one that was published. Christopher 'Kit' Whelen (1926 &endash; 1993) was a conductor and composer, and admirer of James Gould Cozzens. He wrote film scores for the Fu Manchu films and became musical director of the Old Vic. In 1969 he defended Cozzens against harsh criticism in the Spectator and in a letter to Laura Riding suggested his books as reading material. Box a little rubbed at edges, otherwise very good. Slight rubbing, otherwise very good.