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Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG 322 pp.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:0471093580.

Zustand: sehr gut. XII, 322 S., 24 cm, Schutzumschlag. Sprache: Englisch.

Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, gray dustjacket with red lettering, large 8vo: xij, 322pp., [ij], introductory essay, 9 contributions, footnotes & references, note on contributors, table of contents, index. Fine copy. A Publication of the American Antiquarian Society Program in the History of the Book in American Culture.

First edition. xii + 322 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover/Pappeinband. Zustand: Gut. 77 S., Ill. Guter Zustand. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Seiten sauber. Auf Deutsch und Englisch. / Good. Cover shows mild wear. Clean pages. In German and English. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 420.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first issue, with Spring 1979 on the bottom of the front cover and on the title-page. There were only the two printings of the true first edition of Granta No. 1, and this true first printing is scarce, having a very low print-run. ***Near fine in white colour-illustrated card covers. The extremities of the covers are just very slightly rubbed and slightly discoloured (being a white background). Some light smudge marks on the front cover (please see scans). No creases or tears. No reading creases to the spine. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. ***212 pages plus unnumbered page on recto of rear wrapper of adverts. 212mm x 146mm. ***Contents: Bill Bryson & Bill Buford: New American Writing - Introduction; Stanley Elkin: from The Franchiser; John Dugdale: Updike's Nabokov; Jonathan Levi: John Cheever in the Bourgeois Tradition; Susan Sontag: Unguided Tour; Henry Davis: A Plug for Bukowski; Ronald Sukenick: from Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues; Don Guttenplan: The Wor(l)ds of William Gass; Tillie Olsen: Requa-I; Donald Barthelme: The New Music; James Purdy: Summer Tidings; Leonard Michaels: The Men's Club; Norman Bryson: Orgy, hors-je, hors-jeu: a Note on the Work of James Purdy; Marc Granetz: Chuckle or Gasp: a Note on the Work of Leonard Michaels; Tony Tanner: Present Imperfect: a Note on the Work of Walter Abish; Joyce Carol Oates: from Son of the Morning; William Gass: The First Winter of my Married Life; William Warner: Interview - Theodore Solotaroff; John Hawkes: The Universal Fears. ***Extremely scarce first printing(Spring 1979) of the first issue of this collectable landmark literary magazine. By far the rarest of all the early Grantas. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.