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Fools' Gold
by Hitchens, Dolores
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. From Dolores Hitchens, the first edition of Fools' Gold, a Crime Club selection.. Octavo, 187pp. Black hardcover, title stamped in yellow on spine. Stated "first edition" on the copyright page. Light dust along top edge of text block, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.95 on front flap, faint shelf wear to rear panel, touch of wear to upper edge of spine, a near fine example, scarce in this condition. Fools' Gold by Dolores Hitchens was the basis for the French New Wave film, Bande à part, by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released as Band of Outsiders in North America, starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11418
- Title
- Fools' Gold
- Author
- Hitchens, Dolores
- Illustrator
- From Dolores Hitchens, the first edition of Fools' Gold, a Crime Club selection.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- fool's gold hitchens, Madison Dance, db Olsen, Dolan Birkley, Noel Burke
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