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I Should Have Stayed Home
by McCoy Horace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/Fair
- Seller
-
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. Stated First Edition. 235 pages. Ex-rental library in trimmed dustjacket with flaps attached to boards, some chipping to edges, spine heavily sunned. Binding cocked but solid. Rough but presentable copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Fiction::Mystery & Thriller ; Inventory No: 030295. BZDB373 Fiction::Mystery & Thriller ; Unbranded Horace McCoy I Should Have Stayed Home
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hang Fire Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030295
- Title
- I Should Have Stayed Home
- Author
- McCoy Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
Hang Fire Books
Returns accepted within thirty days IN SAME CONDITION. Refund initiated on receipt and inspection of returned item.
About the Seller
Hang Fire Books
Biblio member since 2005
Brooklyn, New York
About Hang Fire Books
Hang Fire Books specializes in vintage paperbacks and pulp fiction but carries a wide selection of rare and OP titles. We're based in Brooklyn, New York. Private viewings can be arranged by appointment.
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
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