The House of Cain
by UPFIELD, Arthur William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
San Francisco: Dennis McMillan, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. San Francisco, Dennis McMillan, 1983 (second US edition)/ 1929 (first US edition)/ 1928. Octavo, [iv], 286 pages with a frontispiece. Red cloth lettered in gilt; top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies of the second American edition of Upfield's first book. Philip José Farmer provides a three-page introduction. Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964), writer and bushman, is best known for his series of 29 crime novels featuring the part-Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte (who does not appear in this mystery story). Loder, page 230 ('Set in an Australian inland retreat for murderers'); Burnet 1.3.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138611
- Title
- The House of Cain
- Author
- UPFIELD, Arthur William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dennis McMillan
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1983
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...