Cover Charge
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; dark green cloth, blocked and titled in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover; 286pp. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, gilt rubbed at base of spine, with some shelfwear and scuff marks to panels; small stains to margins on pages 9-15, a few terminal pages roughly opened; still a Very Good, sound copy. The author's first book, one of five F.Scott Fitzgerald-esque novels Woolrich would write before embarking on a career writing crime fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20761
- Title
- Cover Charge
- Author
- WOOLRICH, Cornell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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