THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM by Wilson, Edmund - 1941

San Francisco, CA: The Colt Press, 1941. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 72 pages. A collection of essays by Wilson on James M. Cain, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, Hans Otto Storm, John Steinbeck, and another two essays. A very good copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some of the pages partially unopened and with some minor wear to the paper spine label and some other light wear. No dust jacket. Internally a clean copy.

San Francisco: The Colt Press / The Grabhorn Press, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 72 Pp. One Of 1500 Copies. Black Cloth Spine, Paper Label Printed In Black, In Grey And White Decorated Boards With A Black And White Colt Press Illustration/Log. With The One Page Prospectus/ Broadside For This Book With Illustration Six Men At Back Room Table Of A Bar, And An Attached Small Order Blank For This Book Printed In Red. Also With A Contemporary Newspaper Review. Very Good, Wear With Fading And Slight Fraying At Edges. Dust Jacket Worn, Brown, Spine Mostly Perished, Front Flap Detached From Front Panel, Chips At Edges.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. First Edition; trade issue; one of 1500 copies. Very good in a chipped dust jacket. The postscript notes the recent deaths of Fitzgerald and West.

1/1/1941. Hardcover w/DJ. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. 1/1500 limited edition. Dust jacket protected; edges worn, chipped, creased; front cover of dust jacket detached; black cloth spine over decorated paper boards with paper title label on spine; spine edges faded; cover edges worn; binding tight; text clean. G/G-

San Francisco: The Colt Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed patterned boards, spine label. One of 1500 copies. Hint of toning/rubbing to board edges, slight corner wear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned, slighlty insected/edgeworn/soiled. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 72 pages .

San Francisco: Colt, 1941. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited.. In goldstone & payne F 10, one of 1500 copies, with the Steinbeck article pp. 41-53. Notes on California novelists. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Colt Press, 1941. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in A Very Good Plus Jacket1/1500 Copies Excellent Fresh Copy..

E-014: Colt Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Colt Press, San Francisco, CA. 1941. 72 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (faded along the spine). Bound in decorated green cloth boards with paper titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Edmind Wilson's trenchant comments on the works of James M. Cain, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, Hans Otto Storm, William Saroyan, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, at a time when most of them were emerging greats, with their talents firmly established but their places in the pantheon not yet certain. E-014; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages .

The Colt Press, 1941. 1ST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. One of 100 numbered copies.Specially bound in original beige linen with paper labels. Printed on special paper signed by Wilson. This copy is number 27. Hint of tanning on edges of binding. This copy is in fine condition, very clean and straight. However there is a very tiny corner piece of the spine label missing.

SAN FRANCISCO: COLT PRESS.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Trade Issue. Limited to 1500 copies. Near fine in black quarter cloth with pale green decorated boards, lacking the dj. (Cloth at spine mildly discolored) Essays on Steinbeck, Saroyan, Cain & O'Hara. Sharp copy. .