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Beast in View
by Millar, Margaret
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Stated first printing. Slightly cocked, edges rubbed through in spots. Lightly soiled. Ffep has erasures and darkened edge; rfep has some stains and offsetting. Block edge lightly dampstained/foxed. Some pages have small stains, some corners have been dogeared. Hinges faintly loose. The DJ in mylar is chipped to crown down to just above the word Beast; slightly edgeworn, slightly mottled, toned to verso. Small split mid spine. Flap price of $3.50 present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Beast in View is a suspense novel and psychological thriller by Margaret Millar which won the Edgar Award in 1956, was adapted for an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1964, and was included on a list of the The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time issued in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36765
- Title
- Beast in View
- Author
- Millar, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1955
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- 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...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- 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....
- Erasures
- Erasures indicates marks where someone has removed bits of text or content from a book. In Book Arts, erasures can also mean a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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