A PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH RED HAIR: A ROMANTIC MACABRE
by Walpole, Hugh
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Oak Ridge, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xiv] 15-323 [324: blank], original red cloth, facsimile of Walpole's signature stamped in blind on front panel, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. "A competent thriller with supernatural undertones." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 481. Bleiler (1948), p. 278. Hubin (1994), p. 837. , a bright, nearly fine copy in very good printed dust jacket (on salmon paper stock) with shallow loss at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips. <br/> <br/>
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- Bookseller
- ARCCBOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000097
- Title
- A PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH RED HAIR: A ROMANTIC MACABRE
- Author
- Walpole, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
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