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Straws and Prayer-Books: Available Copies

Good plus, light general wear, edges & spine ends lightly chewed First Edition Cloth Light overall soiling, corners bumped; o/w tight reading copy

Hard Cover - VG - No dust jacket if issued - Book is clean and tight with light wear - 302 pages.

Owner's flamboyant ink signature on front free end paper; Aged textblock overall clean and tight; Binding lightly edge and corner worn and scuffed; Spine titling faded; Lacks dust jacket; 302p. Size: 12mo - over 6 " 7 " Tall

Stated "Third Edition" in brown cloth with spine and cover gilt stamped. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company (1924). 302 pps. A VG or better copy with soft spine ends. No jacket.

General wear and rubbed cover. Bookplate on front free endpage. Tight binding. Gold gilt on spine. Faded gold symbol on cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1924 EDITION: FIRST ED 302

1926. First Edition. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm, text is legible. Pages have some stains and marks, but text remains clear. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Mild stains.

1st American edition. Good/good condition, moderate overall wear to book and dustjacket. Two small labels on inside of back cover. Dustjacket has several chips missing from top edge, spine is faded.

Very light soiling. Lightly bumped corners. Light edgewear.

Book is like new in brown boards with bright gilt lettering. An excellent vintage copy.

First English Edition. foxing to pages. Good to Very Good condition.

First Edition, stated, 302 pp., brown cloth, gilt letters, small bookseller's tag on inside back cover. Some discoloration along the bottom edge of the front cover, not affecting the book.

very good hardcover, there's a nasty tear to the head of the spine 2nd edition. Straws and Prayer-Books, one of the least well known entries in the Poictesme series, consists of collected shorter works.

First edition. Octavo. 302pp. Owner stamp on front pastedown, a very good copy.

B20 of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. A collection of eight essays and two stories. Maroon cloth. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Straws and Prayer-Books 1.03

Dizain de Diversions. 2nd printing. NY (McBride) 1924. A fine copy in slightly soiled and torn dust wrapper.

Hardcover published by John Lane The Bodley Head : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition.1926 VG

Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine is faded wear at edges and spine

CABELL, James Branch. Straws and Prayer-Books. Dizain des Diversions. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924. First edition. Bruccoli and Clark II, p. 70. A fine copy.

Gift inscription on front free end paper; front free end paper browned; binding tight; spine a little bumped at head & foot. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket)

1st edition. 8vo. Prelims. + 302pp. + adverts. Pages lightly browned, purple cloth, boards faintly speckled by damp. US$14

Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 320. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 320

Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 332. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1930 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 17 Language: English Pages: 332 Volume 17

(1926). (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 302pp. (Fiction)

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01

Reprint 1926, good tight copy, some age discolouration, fading to spine, minor marks etc.

1st edition 1926 good clean hardback, binding relaxed, some wear to corners