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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
by INGE, William; Tennessee Williams [introd.]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original grey cloth stamped in black and gilt, halftone laid down on front, dark grey topstain, in original black dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xiv],108pp; frontispiece and two plates. Lightly rubbed at edges, partly unopened: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $2.95), lightly rubbed with minor dust to rear and minor browning to verso: Very Good. Nominated for five Tony Awards in 1958; basis for the 1960 film starring Robert Preston and Dorothy McGuire.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56848
- Title
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Author
- INGE, William; Tennessee Williams [introd.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Drama;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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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:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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