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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has slight smudging and is faded at the spine. Illustrations throughout. Some foxing. "O. Henry was once asked why he did not read more fiction. 'It is all tame...as compared with the romance of my own life.' But nothing is more subtly suggestive in the study of this remarkable man than the strange, structural resemblance between the story and life."

Doubleday, Page, 1921. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. In green cloth. Slight lean. .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. ix, 258 pp, preface, list of b&w illustrations, I. The Life and the Short Story; II. Vogue; III. Ancestry; IV,. Birthplace and Early Years; V. Ranch and City Life in Texas; VI. The Shadowed Years; VII. Finding Himself in New York; VIII. Favourite Themes; IX. Last Days; index. First Edition, 1916. "O. Henry was once asked why he did not read more fiction. 'It is all tame', he replied, 'as compared with the romance of my own life'. But nothing is more subtly suggestive in the study of this remarkable man than the strange, structural resemblance between the story and the life. Each story is a miniature autobiography, for each story seems to summarize the four successive stages in his own romantic career." from Chapter I. Faded spine with lightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good Hardcover, later printing, no dustwrapper. Book has light wear of spine ends, cover edges and corners, light fading covers, cracking hinges. Clean text. Gold gilt top foredge. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1916. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good, book has minor fraying of spine and corners of cover, fading of cover, slight staining of endpapers, yellowing of pages, rough-cut foredges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Doubleday, 1925T. hardcover. Acceptable. . noticeable wear, pages yellowed, spinal damage noticeable

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good Spine ends and top panel corners lightly bumped, gold stamping on spine lightly faded, a hint of light browning on page edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1916. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 258pp. Illustrated. spine cocked, some sunning and wear at the spine ends, very good or better. Interior is fine except for a few leaves with cleanly creased corners, likely a binder's error.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The O. Henry biography.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, 2004-07. Paperback. Good.

Alpha Edition. New. Special order direct from the distributor

hodder and stoughton 1916. octavo hardcover; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

Paperback / softback. New.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. 1st. Hardbound. Poor. Dampness has stained and lightened the spine and inner hinge area. A reading copy only. Blue cloth covers. xi, 258 pp. with 10 bw plates. This copy would be thrown away, except for it's rarity and the fact that it is incribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the author of "Abroad At Home.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, 2004-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Loss of matter from foot of spine; spine titles dull. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Royal 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. [x], 258, [2] pp. Dark blue cloth. Black & white photographic portrait frontis. of O. Henry. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his ownership signature to front pastedown.