Among Those Present
by ROCHE, Arthur Somers
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Sears Publishing Company, [1930]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],298pp. A number of small chips to jacket extremities, short closed tear at top edge of upper panel with subsequent crease, upper panel unevenly sunned, short tear along gutter edge of last leaf of text, else Very Good in a Near Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. A New York society type living beyond his means reckons with blackmail and a gang of crooks while simultaneously trying to marry the girl he loves. HUBIN, p. 350.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24040
- Title
- Among Those Present
- Author
- ROCHE, Arthur Somers
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sears Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1930]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...