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by Miller, Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Book Find Club/Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel, in which he starkly addresses the complexity of racial & ethnic relations & the fear of the "other" in an urban setting. "Could very well be to the virus of American anti-semitism what "Uncle Tom's Cabin' was to ...slavery." Orig. published by Reynal & Hitchcock in 1945, this is a Book Find Club Edition, a hardcover octavo in 217 pages with light red cloth-covered boards stamped with silver lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG: clean with fading to top edges, light soil & dust dulling to all outside page edges.Interior paged modestly tanned & unmarked save for former owner's name & date in pen to ffep. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.50 price intact to front flap, unusual for a BCE), is Good, with light chipping & rubbing to all extremities, light soil & foxing; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 023544
- Title
- Focus
- Author
- Miller, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Book Find Club/Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- antisemitism Jews Jewish fear hate crime mystery cities American United States racism racial ethnic identity fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction-General; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / Judaica/Holocaust Studies;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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