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The Screaming Mimi; A Dutton Guilt Edged Mystery
by Brown, Fredric
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown.. Octavo, 248pp. Yellow cloth, title printed on spine in blue. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Clean text, lightly worn bottom edge of cloth, some foxing to outer edge of text block. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. In publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 on front flap, lightly soiled from handling, chipping at edges of spine, some toning to spine. Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, mystery, short fantasy and black comedy writer. His first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, won an Edgar Award for outstanding mystery novel. Another novel, The Screaming Mimi, was adapted into a film in 1958. He is widely considered one of the best Science Fiction Writers of the 20th Century. Fredric Brown died in 1972, having published over 100 works of fiction. Since his death, many of his early pulp novels have been republished and have found a cult following.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10161
- Title
- The Screaming Mimi; A Dutton Guilt Edged Mystery
- Author
- Brown, Fredric
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- first edition Fredric Brown, Martians go Home Frederic Brown, Lights in the sky are stars brown, the fabulous clipjoint, the screaming mimi, night of the jabberwock, The Far Cry Brown, Here Comes a Candle, Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Danse M
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