It Ain't Hay
by Dodge, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Carmel Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good -/Very Good -. Lawrence Hoffman. This Book Has It All, literally. Drugs, mystery, mudrer, marijuana and meyham. Dodge, who's earlier books, Bullets for the Bridegroom and Death and Taxes, are filled with drinking, murder and womanizing, evidently bought the whole deal on Marijuana. Killer Weed is the core crime and the personality destroyer in this one. Whit Whitney is on a crusade to punish the dope fiends. The books condition is also World Class. It has it all ! Water damage , cracked hinges, ex library, musty, removed book plate, cocked, .( might as well be Drawn and Quartered, too). DUST JACKET with 1/4" chips at head and tail, creasing on edges, light celotape marks. With all this .can there be more? Yes, a 90% discount (total price $20) to some worthy collector for reading this description and. after all.it is a first edition in an unclipped DUST JACKET and .it's alright to have a little fun with your books !! Size: Small Octavo
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Details
- Seller
- California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000197
- Title
- It Ain't Hay
- Author
- Dodge, David
- Illustrator
- Lawrence Hoffman
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- CALIFORNIA AUTHOR INTER SANCTUM MYSTERY DETECTIVE MARIJUANA SAN FRANCISCO DRUGS
Terms of Sale
California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
All Books are sold net and are guaranteed as described. All books are returnable within 5 days of receipt for any reason. M/C and VISA is available if desired. Shipping ( Media Mail) is $5.00 for the first book and $2.00 for each book there after. Overseas charges (and insurance if requested) are by cost. 7.25% Calif. tax is required at the time of purchase and a Dealer re-sale number on file is required for a 10% dealer discount. E-mail: CalBookSlr@aol.com. Phone 831 659 1065Address: California Bookseller Sleepy Hollow / Carmel ValleyCA 93924
About the Seller
California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
Biblio member since 2006
Carmel Valley, California
About California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
California Bookseller offers select books relating to California Art, History and Literature of the Golden State. Gold Rush books & Pacific Voyages to California are a specialty. California fine Press, select maps & broadsides, lithographs & lettersheets are also available.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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