Summer Time Ends by Hargrave, John - 1935

The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Acceptable dust jacket. Former Library book. Front flap of another dust jacket pasted to front endpage. (Fiction, Literature)

New York: Bobbs-merrill, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Red cloth binding with a small water mark, DJ is second state with the unique Steinbeck blurb. Nice yellow topstain, DJ unclipped, in Goldstone & Payne, G-30..

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1935]. First American Edition. Thick octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in the yellow second issue dust jacket printed in red and black; [2],877pp. Jacket rather dust-soiled with a few tiny chips to extremities, else Very Good and sound overall. Second issue dust jacket with the extensive blurb by John Steinbeck. Massive experimental novel by the leader of the British Kibbo Kift utopian movement.

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1935, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Second issue jacket with a lengthy commentary by John Steinbeck which is prominently featured all over the jacket (the first issue jacket is simply illustrated without being plastered with Steinbeck's praise for this experimental novel), Goldstone & Payne G30, not recorded by Morrow. Fine in a near fine jacket.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1935. 1st Edition . Very Good. 14.5 x 21 inches (5.75 x 8.25 cm). First UK edition, from the American sheets. Lacking jacket. Green cloth binding. A few marks and stains to page edges, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Well-received experimental novel that ignores the usual rules of English language punctuation and sentence structure. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 14.5 x 21 inches (5.75 x 8.25 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 877

United States of America: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1935. Signed by author on title page. (The words have been run together but appear to read: "yoursmostsincerely"). Red boards, stated first edition, 877 pages. Spine faded, front and rear mottled as from uneven fading, smudged on bottom edge, two tears (1/2 inch and 1/16 inch) at head of spine, backstrip pulled away at head of spine, previous owner's name and address in pencil on ffep, price in pencil and two 1/8 inch holes (as though something once attached) on ffep, pages darkened, thumbing on reverse of fly title page and following 3 pages, else pages clean. Overall, very good minus. Rare signed copy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No DJ. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, lightly rubbed at the edges, an irregular piece of loss at the lower spine. Red buckram, toned at the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faded top stain, former owner's return label inside the front board, clean otherwise. Hargrave's innovative experimental novel that presents "[e]vents happening in different parts of the same English industrial village...together in time, just as in a symphony complementary themes reach the ear from strings and brasses at the same moment.