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I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME
de McCoy, Horace
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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London: Arthur Baker Ltd, 1938. First UK Edition. The author's third book, a hard-boiled depression-era novel set in Hollywood. Centered around an aspiring young actor and actress, living on the skids and hoping for a break, the novel explores the cut-throat and exploitative nature of the movie business, giving glimpses of "the whole range of Hollywood life - its parties and night clubs, its mansions and cheap bungalows, its gallery of fantastic characters, merciless business men, frauds, geniuses, and vultures..." (from front flap). Hubin, p.260. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in navy blue on spine and covers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],222pp. Hint of sunning to spine, touch of offset from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 7/6 net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few small nicks to spine ends and a few closed tears; Very Good+.
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- Librería
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4402
- Título
- I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME
- Autor
- McCoy, Horace
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First UK Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Arthur Baker Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1938
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Stephenson, Virginia
Sobre 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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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
