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Seaports in the Moon: Available Copies

slight fade to the spine, personal bookplate, front hinge starting, ex-library with internal marks

A Fantasia on Romantic Themes. 1st ed. NY (Doubleday Doran) 1928. Front hinge cracked and covers scuffed. Internally quite nice.

Stated first edition in the original black cloth with orange titles and illustrated endpapers. Blind stamp of prior owner on title page; rear jacket panel tipped onto free endpaper; else a very good, clean and unmarked copy. Scarce

very good -fine black binding, maybe a little spine fade

very good soiling

First edition. Front hinge loose, spine slightly faded, else near fine without dustjacket. Alexander Caine's copy with Christmas card tipped in.

First edition. Black cloth with orange lettering. Light foxing on page edges, tiny creases on the spine with abraded bottom corners, very good.

First Edition. Very good copy with some minor fading to the spine without dust jacket.

First Edition. Owner stamp. Very Good condition.

beautiful, bright jacket is missing most of the title

front hinge broken, rear one starting, fraternity bookplate

inscribed by Starrett, previous owner's name

Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

289 PAGES. RED STAINED TOP EDGES AS ISSUED. INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGE, "TO (NAME ERASED) WITH ALL GOOD WILL AND IN FRIENDSHIP VINCENT STARRETT DEC, 1930." A CLEAN, TIGHT COLLECTIBLE COPY. Size: 5 1/4" x 7 11/16"

Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-289 [290-292: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, orange coated endpapers. First edition. A presentation copy with signed six-line inscription by Starrett to Edgar J. Goodspeed on front free endpaper. Episodes in the lives of real and imaginary literary figures from the late fifteenth century to the 1920s linked by their possession of a vial containing water from the legendary fountain of youth. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13571. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#130558)

First Edition, First Printing. 5.25 x 8.75in. 289pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Margaret Phelan, "Yes, there are Seaports in the moon; there are ships to take us there!" Vincent Starrett." NEAR FINE. Shows the slightest shelf rubbing along the edges, else Fine/As New. As pictured.

Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-289 [290-292: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, orange coated endpapers. Signed inscription by Starrett on the second end paper. Episodes in the lives of real and imaginary literary figures from the late fifteenth century to the 1920s linked by their possession of a vial containing water from the legendary fountain of youth. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13571. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild shelf wear to the spine ends, long diagonal closed tear to the rear panel, two closed tear to lower rear panel with crease, mild age darkening to spine panel. (23964)

First Edition stated. Bill Crawford dustjacket art. Satirical novel found in Bleiler of those "romantic rascals" Francois Villon, Sancho Panza, Rabelais, d'Artagnan, Long John Silver and Cyrano De Bergerac. Near Fine, contemporary ownership signature at front endpaper in Very Good dustjacket, few edge nicks.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Vincentl Starrett on the front free endpaper: ÒFor Harry F. Weber wishing him joy of the tale, Vincentl StarrettÓ. Fine fresh copy in a very good dust jacket with some darkening, mostly to the spine, and some small chips and tears.