THREE OF A KIND.
by Cain, James M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
KNOPF. NY 1943. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Very good+ copy in very good price clipped '2nd.' issue jacket. (Stamped price of $2.50 at bottom corner of front jacket flap. Rear cover features a short essay by Cain. Gilt on spine rubbed. Exceedingly faint erasure on front end-paper. Bottom edge of cloth lightly shelf soiled. A few chips at edges of jacket. Short edge tears. ) Features the FIRST book appearance of "Double Indemnity." ; 327 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Waverley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11233
- Title
- THREE OF A KIND.
- Author
- Cain, James M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- KNOPF. NY 1943
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Mystery & Detective Fiction/james M. Cain/books Into Films/205
- Bookseller catalogs
- List205;
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About the Seller
Waverley Books
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Monica, California
About Waverley Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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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