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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good, spine tanned and thin boards a little soiled, but tight. (Pages: 1396). 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.

New York: Doubleday & Co, 1931. Hardcover. Good/Good. A good plus copy in an about good dustwrapper. Reading Copy, soiled end pages,& text edges last few text pages creased, cloth covers flaired and worn on corners, fading gold stamped spine, dustwrapper s heavily chipped, faeded and worn. 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, Doran, 1931-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Good book with a general worn look and feel along with yellowing due to age. This is a good reading copy. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F.

Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Introduction By Harry Hansen. Two Two-Tone (Blue Boards With Orange Back Strips) Cloth Hardcovers In Very Good Condition. Clean, Bright, And Tight..

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 11 volumes [of 12] lacking one volume (*Roads of Destiny*). Tall octavos. Quarter parchment gilt and pale brown paper over boards. Moderate soiling on the spines, and some rubbing on the boards, a very good or better set. One of 125 copies, this is copy is noted in the first volume (*The Four Million*) in type as "Number Five Printed for Ethel De Valcourt Lynn". Also tipped into that volume is a page of manuscript in pencil on toned paper (as always) that begins "Let us bestow 200 words upon the psychology of the audience" from O' Henry's story, *The Unprofitable Servant* a story left unfinished at his death and later published in *Everybody's Magazine* in December, 1911.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912. The manuscript edition of the Works of O. Henry, limited to 125 examples. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in original half vellum. In fine condition. The manuscript is bound into volume one. An exceptional set. William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and later moved to Texas in 1882. It was there that he met his wife, Athol Estes, with whom he had two children. In 1902, after the death of his wife, Porter moved to New York, where he soon remarried. It was while he was in New York that Porter's most intensive writing period occurred, with Porter writing 381 short stories. Porter's works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief". His stories are known for their surprise endings and witty narration. Porter also wrote poetry and non-fiction.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912. 12 volumes. The Manuscript Edition, limited to only 125 numbered sets (this is number 37) WITH TWO PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT INCLUDED. Tall 8vos, in the publisher's original buff boards backed in white vellum, the upper covers and spines both lettered in gilt, t.e.g. A very fine and handsome set, the text absolutely pristine, this set WITH TWO leaves of manuscript included instead of only one. A VERY FINE SET OF THE SCARCE AND IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT EDITION, THIS SET UNUSUAL AS IT HAS TWO LEAVES OF MANUSCRIPT INSTEAD OF ONLY ONE AS IS NORMAL. The condition, combined with the extra leaf of manuscript, makes this the finest set of O. Henry's works we've ever seen, truly unparalleled. The manuscript leaves are written in pencil on O. Henry's yellow paper and are two consecutive leaves from the novella "Heart of the West" which was originally published in 1907.