WISTERIA COTTAGE - INSCRIBED
por Coates, Robert M
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
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- Livreiro
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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Sobre este item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. A novel of obsessive love and murder, "presented as a case history of a psychiatric patient under observation at the Willetstown State Hospital during the three months before his trial" (The Dark Page, Vol.2, pp.34-35). A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, and basis for Robert Gurney, Jr's 1958 film noir Edge of Fury, starring Michael Higgins, Lois Holmes, and Jean Allison - one of the first films to deal with psychopathology from a sympathetic perspective. Hubin, p.84. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue and pale pink on spine; dustjacket; [viii],212,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Tania + Jimmy / Stay away from those dunes, folks! Stay away from those dunes! / Bob." Light wear and gentle nudging to spine ends, pinpoint wear to corner-tips, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lighlty edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with shallow loss at crown (not affecting lettering), and some light dust-soil to rear panel; Very Good+.
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- Livreiro
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 5000
- Título
- WISTERIA COTTAGE - INSCRIBED
- Autor
- Coates, Robert M
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1948
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2010
Stephenson, Virginia
Sobre Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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