|
|
 |
|
|
|
Item Details
|
|
 |
 |
| Heading: |
|
| Author: |
Olson, Charles (1910-1970) |
| Title: |
Call Me Ishmael |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Reynal & Hitchcock |
| Date: |
[1947] |
| Item # : |
185578 |
|
|
| Sale Number |
|
364 |
| Lot Number |
|
356 |
| Sale Name |
|
|
| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
|
09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
|
$ 862 |
| (Includes 20% Buyer's Premium) |
|
This item was sold in a live auction.
If another copy or a similar item comes
up for auction, we can let you know.
Pressing the button below will add
the title to your 'want list', and if
the item comes up for auction again,
we will notify you via email.
|
|
|
| Description: |
| Yellow cloth, spine lettered dark blue, orange jacket. First Edition, first printing. |
| Inscribed and signed by the author and his wife (all in Charles Olson's hand) in blue ink "For Marian & Michael whom we love, Connie & Charles" on the front free endpaper. Author's scarce and important first book. Jacket front panel subtitled: Herman Melville, 'Moby-Dick', and America: Space...Myth...Shakespeare. Butterick & Glover A1. |
| Condition: |
| Chips and tears with creases to jacket edges, large old tape repairs to verso (causing some darkening to recto), mild rubbing; slight lean, light shelf wear; very good or better, bright, jacket fair to good but quite scarce. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
previous lot next lot
|
|
|
|
