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Leave Her to Heaven (First Edition)
by Ben Ames Williams
- Used
- first
- Condition
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the superb 1945 film, a late, blazing-Technicolor noir starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Vincent Price. Scarce in this condition.
Meeting all first edition points, which include: (1) red cloth, with titles stamped in black, (2) date of 1944 at the bottom of the title page, (3) measures roughly 8 by 5.5 inches, (4) 429 pages of text, and (5) price of $2.50 on the front jacket flap. Later editions are often confused with the first, due to the fact that they were made from better materials, the opposite of normal practice. The first printing was printed under wartime restrictions in 1944, then under improved circumstances when the war ended in 1945.
Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is bright with some nicking at corners and light rubbing at extremities. In a custom green clamshell box.
The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 274.
Meeting all first edition points, which include: (1) red cloth, with titles stamped in black, (2) date of 1944 at the bottom of the title page, (3) measures roughly 8 by 5.5 inches, (4) 429 pages of text, and (5) price of $2.50 on the front jacket flap. Later editions are often confused with the first, due to the fact that they were made from better materials, the opposite of normal practice. The first printing was printed under wartime restrictions in 1944, then under improved circumstances when the war ended in 1945.
Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is bright with some nicking at corners and light rubbing at extremities. In a custom green clamshell box.
The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 274.
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- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 156377
- Title
- Leave Her to Heaven (First Edition)
- Author
- Ben Ames Williams
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Books into Film | Film Noir | Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Books into Film; Film Noir;
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www.royalbooks.com
We are an open shop located in the midtown section of Baltimore. Check our website for directions if you are coming through the Baltimore area. We are open 10AM-6PM EST, Monday through Friday. You may email an order at any time, 24 hours a day.
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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