The Best of O’ Henry: One Hundred Stories – Chosen by Sapper OHenry

Description

Condition: Fair. 1954. Seventeenth Impression. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding not perfect and webbing shows on front end papers. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards. Interior feels and looks better and still tightly bound.

Price commensurate to condition.

1139 pages. Hardback

19x13x4cm

“The Best of O. Henry: One Hundred Stories Chosen by Sapper, 17th Impression, 1954” refers to a popular anthology of O. Henry’s (William Sydney Porter’s) classic short stories.

Edited/selected by “Sapper” (Herman Cyril McNeile) and published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1954, marking its 17th printing.

Featuring his witty tales of ordinary people, often with surprising endings, a common find in vintage book collections.  Known for tales of ordinary life, love, sacrifice, and famous “twist” endings, such as “The Gift of the Magi”.