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1974Q-0030122317Holt Rinehart and Winston 1974-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
215997BLondon: Sampson Low Marston & Co. Ltd. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Scarce. Early Baldwin title. 282 pp. plus ads. Foxing on endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titles. Back corners bumped head and tail of spine lightly worn. White DJ with black titles and colour illustration. Small chips wear along the edges. VG/VG <br/> <br/> Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. hardcover
0884116050.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
193634917Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company 1936. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Cover art by John La Gatta. Contributions by Carl Sandburg and others. Illustrations by Arthur William Brown and others. Foxing to edges of front cover heavy foxing and insect damage to back cover wear to spine. Internally very clean. A good copy. ; Folio. The Curtis Publishing Company unknown
156054273X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1937413672New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. A bit of foxing and bumping on the boards very good in very good spine-faded dustwrapper. Inscribed by Baldwin on the front endpaper to mystery writer Mignon Eberhart and her husband: "Minnie and Alan with much love Faith." The friendship between Baldwin and Eberhart is well documented with Eberhart considered the founder of the modern romance suspense or mystery novel. Baldwin was one of the most popular romance novelists of her day. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1958251171958. BALDWIN Faith. Typed Letter Signed. Two pages on both sides of a single sheet; hand-written in ink: "Rt. 2 Meed Ave. Norwalk Conn Sept. 26/58." Note: There are numerous typing errors and hand-written corrections in ink throughout the letter and spelling errors are for the most part not noted in the follow textual description- as there are many. To a teacher in California Baldwin apologizes for the delay in her response to several questions posed by the teacher. "I can reply to your questions only informally and in bad typing as I have never used a secretary and employ two fingers." Baldwin discusses several of her books and writes that Many Windows will be published on her 65th birthday. "About education. I don't have the true equivalent of a high school education. Mrs. Dow's school did give courses which if passed took you into college; but I wasn't interested in college; I was about 17 and a ga half sic when I left Mrs. Dow's. The education in Germany was during the war and consisted of house keeping school didn't learn a thing and of German which I learned. I am not sorry I didn't go to college; I think I would have frittered away my time and probably flunked. I was not a good student for I was far too lazy." Baldwin goes on in some detail about advising students to go to college "if it is possible" and discusses the benefits of a college education and the difficulty of supporting herself as a writer. "You can only eat while you write if you have rich parents or generous and/or a well-heeled husband or wife." Baldwin writes about the demands for college degrees in the business world and says she always advises her students to at least have a good secretarial degree "for this is really an open door. I have seen one advance from typist to private secretary to asst. editor and then editor on a national magazine." Baldwin continues about her father's profession lawyer and her mother's a grade-school teacher and her family's background missionaries editors etc. "It's tougher if you are born into a family without the cultural background but that can be overcome by education." She writes "in this era a college education is extremely valuable and certainly a high school education a must." Also signed by Baldwin as "Mrs. Hugh Cuthrell." Baldwin was known for typing her manuscripts quickly but inaccurately and. unknown
19652031291965. unbound. 2 pages front and back 11 x 8.5 inches no place no date circa 1965. Typed on plain paper with numerous handwritten corrections in part: ".This story you told me has no plot. And knowing WFB from old and his interest in young love and new plot and plenty of action I am rather alarmed. So if this doesn't suit the magazine no hard feelings." Signed "Faith" with handwritten postscript regarding a story submission. Natural folds paperclip impression in the top margin and a tiny chip on the upper left corner. Very good- condition.<br/> <br/> unknown
1939440052New York: Triangle Books 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Pages toned very good in near fine dustwrapper. Publisher's File Copy stamped on the bottom edge and front fly and a label with publisher's information affixed on half-title and spine. Triangle Books hardcover
0786228741.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
143259821X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1163195731.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1436699827.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1494080419.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19399366New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Silver cloth with blue titles on cover and spine top edge stained green. Light wear to spine ends inscription on front free endpaper some glue residue on rear pastedown endpaper. Dustjacket has light chipping along the edges two tears and some shelf wear. A very good copy in very good- dustjacket. ; Octavo; 305 pages. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover
1954413675New York: Rinehart and Company 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Spine a little rubbed very good in very good dustwrapper with a little toning and a nick on the spine. Inscribed by Baldwin on the front endpaper before publication: "June 30/'54. Henrietta and Ray with deep gratitude and love Faith. Publication August 12 '54. Rinehart and Company hardcover
1954413673New York: Rinehart and Company 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in slightly smudged very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed by Baldwin on the front endpaper before publication: "July 11-'54. For Eddie and Mary with love from Faith. Publication August 12/54. Rinehart and Company hardcover
1013920422.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1934352077New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. First edition. Illustrations by Harry Anderson. Octavo. Slightly cocked with some wear at the top and bottom edge near fine in fair dustwrapper split at the flaps and rear with part of the spine lacking. A collection of four novelettes set between March 1933 and March 1934. Scarce title and jacket. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
194652790New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1946. Near fine in very good plus jacket. First edition of this epic chronicle of the early 20th century following the life of a woman married at 17 who starts designing dresses to support her family on her own. Baldwin developed a writing career as one of the highest paid women writers in the United States. Her books offered fantasy and sophistication but featured relatable heroines; THE NEW YORK TIMES called her "the doyenne of American light-fiction writers" DAB. Baldwin was unashamed unashamed that her novels were considered "escapist": "People had to have some escape hatch some way to get out of themselves especially during the Depression" DAB 21. 8'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth spine stamped in brown and gilt. In original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket by Robert Hallock. Fore-edge machine deckle. 8 309 1 pages. Jacket with some shallow edgewear slight toning to spine. Book with slight toning to edges. Bright. Farrar & Rinehart unknown
0446754730.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
0909331731.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2020x-0198855508Oxford Univ Pr 2020. Paperback. New. 352 pages. 9.61x6.77x0.71 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
201489742Oxford : Oxford University Press 2014. 253x175mm. XII- illustrated editor's binding with jacket. Exemplar as new. 887 Oxford University Press unknown
20142-0199207941Oxford Univ Pr 2014. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 400 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover