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WISTERIA COTTAGE - INSCRIBED
de Coates, Robert M
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. A novel of obsessive love and murder, "presented as a case history of a psychiatric patient under observation at the Willetstown State Hospital during the three months before his trial" (The Dark Page, Vol.2, pp.34-35). A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, and basis for Robert Gurney, Jr's 1958 film noir Edge of Fury, starring Michael Higgins, Lois Holmes, and Jean Allison - one of the first films to deal with psychopathology from a sympathetic perspective. Hubin, p.84. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue and pale pink on spine; dustjacket; [viii],212,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Tania + Jimmy / Stay away from those dunes, folks! Stay away from those dunes! / Bob." Light wear and gentle nudging to spine ends, pinpoint wear to corner-tips, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lighlty edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with shallow loss at crown (not affecting lettering), and some light dust-soil to rear panel; Very Good+.
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- Librería
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5000
- Título
- WISTERIA COTTAGE - INSCRIBED
- Autor
- Coates, Robert M
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1948
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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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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- 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...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Inscribed
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
