Hamish Hamilton 1956 1st Edition Hardcover Good. No Jacket The boards are a bit shelf rubbed and marked. No inscription. Well bound. EK.

Hamish Hamilton 1956 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good jacket The jacket is a bit sunned, marked and worn but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound-slightly cocked. A few spots. The ffep is missing.

[publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York] Hardcover First Edition 8vo. [9], 3-181, [1] pp. Bound in pale yellow cloth with blue decorations on the boards and decorations and lettering in blue on the spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a bit of age toning to the textblock in a Very Good dust jacket with a tiny abrasion to the spine panel and a closed tear and some associated wrinkling on the top of the rear panel.
[Madison, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1956]
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A Fine first Printing of the First Edition housed in a price-clipped Near Fine dust-jacket; In A Single Pebble, John Hersey tells the story of Henry DeTamble, a man who is slowly losing his mind. The story begins with DeTamble's return from World War II, where he was wounded in the leg. DeTamble is a shell of the man he once was, and his wife is worried about him. One day, DeTamble tells his wife that he's going to take a walk. When he doesn't return, his wife goes out looking for him, and she finds him lying on the ground, surrounded by pebbles. DeTamble tells her that he was walking when he saw a single pebble fall from the sky. He said that the pebble was so beautiful that he wanted to keep it, so he picked it up. But as he was holding it, he started to feel strange. He said that the pebble was talking to him, telling him that it was happy and that it wanted to be; 8vo; 181 pages . 1956. Alfred A. Knopf US

Knopf 1966 Hardcover New Stored new Photos of book emailed upon request Minute storage shelf wear.

[publisher: Knopf] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01
[Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.]
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New York Alfred A. Knopf 1956 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Minor tearing to edges of jacket. Stated First and Second Printings before publication.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

New York Alfred A. Knopf 1956 1st Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine jacket Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. A simple yet profound novel in which a young American engineer travels to China in the 1920s to scout the unruly Yangtze River for possible locations for a great dam. Stated first edition. No writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true, and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, near fine, first edition/first printing copy is protected with an archival mylar dust jacket cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. fine in just about fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed by the author. 1956. Alfred A. Knopf US

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1956. Second Printing before Publication. 181, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket by George Salter. Second Printing before Publication. 181, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With Autograph Letter, signed from Hersey to Lila Tyng dated August 6, 1956, "Of course I remember you, and I thank you for your generous words about my book. Rob will be glad to hear news of you ... " With envelope. Note on front free endpaper "Please return to Lu Shan. Thanks! L. Tyng. 1956. Alfred A. Knopf US