PARTNERS OF THE NIGHT
by Scott, Leroy (stories); Stevens, Dalton (illustrations)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Century Company, 1916. First Edition. A group of loosely connected stories set in the New York underworld. Basis for Paul Scardon's 1920 silent picture starring Pinna Nesbit, William B. Davidson, and William Ingersoll. Scarce in dustjacket. OCLC finds 15 copies. Hubin, p.367. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [18], 361, [5]pp; illus. Mild wear to lower board edges, crown gently nudged, with faint offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers; Very Good+ sound copy. Dustjacket (priced $1.35 at mid-spine) is gently spine-sunned and edgeworn, with a few small chips at crown (none affecting lettering), numerous short tears with attendant creases, and a few small rubbed spots to rear panel; a Very Good, substantially complete example.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2341
- Title
- PARTNERS OF THE NIGHT
- Author
- Scott, Leroy (stories); Stevens, Dalton (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2010
Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....