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The Dead Ringer
by Brown, Fredric
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of The Dead Ringer by Fredric Brown.. Octavo, 224pp. Red cloth, title in black on spine and front cover. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to edges, a touch of foxing to top edge. Faint dampstain to lower edge of covers, not affecting text. Clean text throughout. In publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, chipping to corners, some sunning to spine. A nice example of the author's second crime novel. Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, mystery, short fantasy and black comedy writer. His first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, won an Edgar Award for outstanding mystery novel. Another novel, The Screaming Mimi, was adapted into a film in 1958. He is widely considered one of the best Science Fiction Writers of the 20th Century. Fredric Brown died in 1972, having published over 100 works of fiction. Since his death, many of his early pulp novels have been republished and have found a cult following.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13439
- Title
- The Dead Ringer
- Author
- Brown, Fredric
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Dead Ringer by Fredric Brown.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- first edition Fredric Brown, Martians go Home Frederic Brown, Lights in the sky are stars brown, the fabulous clipjoint, the screaming mimi, night of the jabberwock, The Far Cry Brown, Here Comes a Candle, Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Danse M
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
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- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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