I Should Have Stayed Home
by MCCOY, Horace
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow cloth titled in maroon on spine; maroon topstain; 236pp. Tiny bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper; spine is sunned; faint finger-soiling to covers; spine ends pushed; rear hinge cracked with webbing exposed. Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. Author's third novel. A boy and a girl, stage-struck movie extras, try to satisfy their ambitions in Hollywood, but the corruption they find is too much for them on top of their continuing poverty and hunger. HUBIN, p.266; BAIRD 1596.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53163
- Title
- I Should Have Stayed Home
- Author
- MCCOY, Horace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- 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
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...