Wait Until Spring, Bandini

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Printing. Author's first book, first published by Stackpole in 1938. Dustjacket has very minor wear to corners and top of spine. Fante's signature is on the front flyleaf. Fante died in 1983. A beautiful copy in an unfaded dustjacket. Book is protected in a custom cut… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +/good +. Author's first book. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by the author. A clean, square very good plus copy in green cloth binding. Minor wear to spine tips. Sharp copy in price intact dustwrapper which has chipping along edges and small tears. Uncommon in dustwrapper, and particularly… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First Editiion . Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 265 Pages. First edition of a first novel. Blue-green cloth with orange spine lettering and embossed title on front board. Slightly cocked spine. No marks or stamps and interior text pages are near flawless. Dust jacket $2.50 flap price is unclipped… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. 8vo. 266 pp. Limited first Black Sparrow Press edition. Oatmeal cloth spine over patterned and printed boards. #77 of only 200 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies of this new edition with new preface by the author. Clean and bright copy in clear acetate wrapper, as issued. The… Read more about this item

California, U.S.A.: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Signed Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine in the original acetate jacket. Number 86 of 200 signed limited edition copies hand bound in boards by Earl Gray. Light soiling to boards.

Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 265. 8vo. Illustrated stiff card covers. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good.

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Santa Rosa (CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 8vo.  230 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches].  266 pp., plus a full-page portrait of Fante and a one page biography.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good copy. First Black Sparrow edition, originally printed in 1938.  Fante's first novel, an autobiographical story of a youth growing up in an Italian-American… Read more about this item

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dustwrapper. 266 Pp. Green Cloth, Spine Stamped In Orange, Front Panel Stamped In Blind. An Attractive Copy, Lightly Used, Some Fading To Spine Cloth But With All Lettering Still Clear, A Few Very Small And Very Faint Damp Spots On Covers, No Names Or Marks… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Signed/Limited Edition. Signed Limited Edition. Copy number 1 of 200 signed copies. Copies with low limitation numbers were usually retained by the author. Title page in color. Author's first book, first published by Stackpole in 1938. Fante's signature is very neat, despite his blindness from diabetes. Fante died… Read more about this item

Stackpole Sons, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-fine with bookplate on flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good dust jacket (price clipped) that presents well despite some chipping to the corners and edges that has been reinforced with clear tape on both sides. An attractive copy of… Read more about this item

Paperback. Good.

Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First Thus 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Another collection of verse from this relatively unheralded screenwriter & author (1909-1983). Orig. published in 1938, this is the posthumously published Black Sparrow trade paperback edition from 1983 (this the Second Printing from 1987). In colorful wrappers, 161 pages, this softcover 8vo (6"… Read more about this item

Ecco, May 2002. Paper Back. Very Good. Tight binding. Clean copy. Unmarked text. Light shelfware to exterior.

Stackpole, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket with residue from old jacket protector at the top and bottom edges of the jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Black Sparrow Press. Near Fine. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0876855567 . Signed by Fante, special handbound edition of 26 by Earle Gray lettered F. Small binding error to the front endpaper and first page where some excess glue stuck the two pages together near the joint and caused a little tear. Otherwise a fine copy.; Signed by… Read more about this item

Rebel Inc. Classics, 1999. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. First Rebel Inc. Classics paperback, 1999, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - covers rubbed to edges but remain glossy, spine uncreased. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread, no annotations or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text bright and… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. 0876855540 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 265 pages .

Ecco, 2002-05-31. Paperback. Like New.