Search Results: the paper wall by ira morris

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Jacket scuffed, rubbed and lightly chipped. Boards have rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Stamp on bottom sheet edges. . Hard Cover. Good/Good -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chatto & Windus, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1960. No Edition Remarks. 278 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends.

NY 1961 first American edition. Knopf. Hardcover octavo. 303p. Near Fine, no owner marks. in VG toned dj. (price not clipped.) .

1961. MORRIS, Ira. THE PAPER WALL. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. 8vo., cloth & boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation by Morris on front endpaper: "For the Isaacs, delightful friends who have enriched life and given much pleasure to many. Ira Morris. May 15th, 1963." Near fine; some wear (large tear flap fold with internal repair) d/j. $30.00.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Edges tanned, short tear on spine head, a very good copy in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with tear on spine head. A novel first published in France by the Chicagoan author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. Tape mends to verso of jacket, small remainder stamp "H" in a circle stamped on front endpaper; In Morris's novel, the narrator, a young girl, tells the story of her childhood in a small town in upstate New York. The town is divided by a paper wall, erected by the town's residents to keep out the "other" - a group of neighboring townsfolk who are not like them. The narrator and her friends learn about the other townsfolk by listening to their conversations through the paper wall. The other townsfolk are strange and dangerous, and the paper wall keeps them away. But one day, the wall is torn down, and the narrator and her friends are forced to confront the other townsfolk.; Remainder; 8vo; $6.00 .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. Pages clean and bright, spotting on closed edges, foxing on endpapers, ex-library plate on front paste down, boards firm, rubbing, chipping and light foxing to dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard. Good/Fair. 8vo. Ex Library.