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1956ref. 114568New York: The Viking Press 1956. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For the Gabels from their well-dressed friend who in Italian silk couldn't look less like a writer with best wishes Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University where he graduated with honors and earned bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and sociology. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' Irish Times. "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us step by step the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' New York Times. Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. The Viking Press hardcover
1956ref. 4395New York: The Viking Press 1956. First Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book containing the title novella three short stories and a one-act play. "The title piece a truncated novelette which is heavily introspective concerns a New York Jew who has failed miserably in marriage as he longs for love and respect from his proud physician father and earns a livelihood as a salesman and investor. During the moment of recognition he realizes that his life dependent as it is on the past is a futile anachronism" Kirkus Review Nov.1 1956. Basis for Fielder Cook's 1986 film adaptation starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. A superior copy of an exceedingly difficult title prone to heavy wear with the spine almost always faded. Frist Printing. Octavo 21cm; black paper and yellow cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine and in blind on front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; viii2115pp. Tiny ownership label of Black Sparrow Press publisher John K. Martin at lower edge of rear pastedown. Hint of sunning at crown a handful of tiny foxed spots along front joint else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 with some trivial edge wear with light dust-soil and some faint scattered foxing to extremities particularly along upper edge of rear flap and rear flap fold; a bright Near Fine copy the spine panel still a rich yellow and no fading to the lettering. The Viking Press unknown
1968ref. G0297176749I3N00Littlehampton Book Services Ltd 1968. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd hardcover
1957ref. BELLOWSA005197Weidenfeld and Nicolson London. 1957. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 160 pages.Tail of spine slightly pushed otherwise fine in very near fine dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. unknown
1956ref. 90869New York: The Viking Press 1956. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel. Octavo original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' Irish Times. "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us step by step the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' New York Times. Basis for the well received motion picture starring Robin Williams. The Viking Press hardcover
1956ref. 84225New York: The Viking Press 1956. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For the Gabels with best wishes from an old exile to Evanston Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University where he graduated with honors and earned bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and sociology. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' Irish Times. "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us step by step the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' New York Times. Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. The Viking Press hardcover
ref. mon0000056097Viking Press 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0.5500 in x 7.6400 in x 4.8800 in. This book is in ENGLISH and is the 9th printing from 1968. It's an ex-library Hardcover with usual markings stamps stickers pocket etc. Viking Press hardcover
1968ref. mon0000104021Littlehampton Book Services Ltd 1968-12-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.0000 in x 7.9000 in x 5.5000 in. 9th printing from 1968. It's an ex-library Hardcover with usual markings stamps stickers pocket etc. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd hardcover
1961ref. 13345Viking Press. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer--; 013345 . 1961. Viking Press paperback
1976ref. 61362NY:: Viking. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0670631760 . With three short stories and a one-act play. The author's fourth book. Second printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the original $7.95 price on the front flap. . Viking, hardcover
1957ref. HALL501906Hardback. 1957. 160pp Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 1957. 1st British edition. Book is very good. Rear panel of dust jacket very slightly marked otherwise very good not price-clipped. . hardcover
ref. a46604NY 1956. In Partisan Review Summer 1956 at pp. 295-319. 376-432. Whole issue has several articles. 8vo. wraps. Good one or two small chips at edgfe of front wrap light soiling. . paperback
1956ref. 018157New York: The Viking Press 1956. Book. Near Fine Book. Hardcover. First Edition. Yellow cloth and black paper covers yellow top-edge. A beautiful copy with ever-so-slight sunning to ends of spine and 1/2" rubbed patch on title-page. Jacket has sunning to spine 1.5" closed tear at foot of spine and some edgewear with several other 1/8" closed tears. Overall a respectable copy of this early important and scarce Bellow book. Text clean spine strong. Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. The Viking Press Hardcover
1968ref. G0297176749I3N10Viking Press 1968. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Viking Press hardcover
1957ref. 881Q34London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1957 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A first edition of Saul Bellow's novel featuring Tommy Wilhelm in the original dust wrapper. First edition in the publisher's original dark green cloth binding with the original dust wrapper which has been price-clipped. Written by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow who was known for his novels and short stories. Seize the Day is Bellow's fourth novel and was adapted into a film starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller in 1986. This novel tells the story of a day in the life of Tommy Wilhelm a failed middle-age actor. Wilhelm is separated from his wife children and father despite living near to them. This novel shows Wilhelm examining his life trying to accept the burden of self. In the publisher's original dark green cloth binding with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Light offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper is smart with light edge wear and one closed tear to the front of the wrap. The odd mark to the wrap with a touch of age toning and light offsetting to the reverse. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover
1972ref. 2091202133403014Kawade Shobo Shinsha B6 version 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 221p Portrait size: 20cm Kawade Shobo Shinsha B6 version paperback
1961ref. 581617New York: The Viking Press 1961. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Trade paperback. Bottom edge with a tideline at spine wrappers with a few tiny abrasions spine tanned about very good. Compass Books C91. Author's fourth book. The Viking Press unknown books
1956ref. 32882New York: Foundation for Cultural Projects. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps slightly sunned at edges spine lightly wrinkled light soiling. These is a "relatively late draft of the novella of the same name" Nault #36 pg. 4. The book containing Seize the Day was published in the fall of the same year along with some of Bellow's other short pieces. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295-319 pp . Foundation for Cultural Projects paperback books
1965ref. 914767Greenwich: Fawcett Crest. 1965. A review copy of the first Crest paperback edition. Faint sunning to the spine lettering and age toning to page edges; near fine in wrappers . Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Fawcett Crest paperback books
1956ref. 80590NY: Viking 1956. First edition. 211 pp. Corners lightly bumped else near fine in very good only dust jacket with sunned spine a crease to the front cover and toning to flap folds. NY: Viking, unknown books
1976ref. 61362NY:: Viking. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0670631760 . With three short stories and a one-act play. The author's fourth book. Second printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the original $7.95 price on the front flap. . Viking, hardcover books
ref. 2083002115600761Shueisha N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 374p Portrait size: 20cm Shueisha paperback
1980ref. 204088München: Thauros-Verlag, 1980. 55 S., 21 cm. O.kart., engl. broschiert.
ref. 1396029036.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1947ref. 040147Prairie City IL: The Press of James A. Decker 1947. First edition 1947 signed by the author on the title page. Taupe hardcover with dustjacket errata slip laid in loosely at the front. Very good condition with firm binding clean pages personal bookplate inside front cover with the same name neatly written on the front free endpaper no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped 2.50 and has some age-toning and light shelf soil very tiny chips to corners and lower spine end very little paper loss. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Press of James A. Decker Hardcover