NIGHTFALL.
by Goodis, David
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: JULIAN MESSNER. 1947. Near Fine. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Discrete previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down neatly obscured by jacket flap. Very shallow chipping at spine ends. A few slender chips at edges of jacket. Small edge tears. ) An attractive copy of the author's scarce THIRD book. Basis for director Jacques Tourneur's noir film adaptation. .
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17110
- Title
- NIGHTFALL.
- Author
- Goodis, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- NY: JULIAN MESSNER. 1947
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Mystery & Detective Fiction/david Goodis/219
- Bookseller catalogs
- List161; List174; List204;
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About the Seller
Waverley Books
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Monica, California
About Waverley Books
Waverley Books is a mail order operation.We conduct business from our home. Lists of books for sale are issued regularly during the year. Customers are welcome by appointment to view the inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
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