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The Bad Seed
by March, William
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of The Bad Seed by William March, in the first state dust jacket.. Octavo, 247pp. Black cloth, pink boards, title in pink on spine. Rinehart "R" on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, toning to edges of leaves, a very good example. In publisher's first state dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to spine, shelf wear, a very good example. (Barron, Horror Literature 4-211) Illustrated dust jacket by Lawrence S. Kamp. The Bad Seed was William March's last novel to be published before his passing in May of 1954.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12319
- Title
- The Bad Seed
- Author
- March, William
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Bad Seed by William March, in the first state dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Rinehart and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- March, William March, William March first edition, William March signed, The Bad Seed, The Bad Seed first edition, The Bad Seed signed, Company K
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
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