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Berlin at Midnight
by Joseph, Robert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Greenberg, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Greenberg, 1948. First Edition . Very Good/Very Good+. First Edition, in original unclipped jacket. Clean green cloth boards with hint of browning to edges. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean but slightly yellowed with clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 292 pgs. Clean dustjacket (slight browning to edges), not price clipped, shallow chipping at top spine edge (1/4"), a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of a man who had been born and educated in Berlin. With the advent of Hitler, he was sent to the U.S. to be educated. As Hitler prepared for war, his parents urged him not to return to a doomed Europe. He followed their advice, and the last letter he received from his father reported that his mother had been arrested by the Nazis, then the blackout of all news. America entered the war and He was in the army. When it was over, he was back in the streets of Berlin, searching for his parents in a blighted city of rubble and death. The climas is chill-laden melodrama, filled with narrow escapes..
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018630
- Title
- Berlin at Midnight
- Author
- Joseph, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Greenberg
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II FICTION BERLIN GERMANY NAZI THRILLER SUSPENSE ROBERT JOSEPH
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II;
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
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