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Rain in the Doorway
by Smith, Thorne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Doran Company, Inc, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Herbert Roese. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, shallow chip at the head of the spine. Brown cloth with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with an orange top stain, David Lloyd's handprinted last name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. This copy is complete with the original "Kleptomaniac's Edition" bookplate, unused, laid-in. Smith's comic novel about Mr. Owen and his odyssey through the more raucous, fantastic side of New York he had never experienced.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7170
- Title
- Rain in the Doorway
- Author
- Smith, Thorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Doran Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Humor, Mythology, New York, American Literature, Adventure, Romance, 20th Century Fiction, American Fiction
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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