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Danger Circus
by Whitfield, Raoul; William Heaslip [Illustrations]
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition. [xii], 191, [1] pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in navy. Very Good with faint cup ring to front board, edges foxed, contents toned with age, two small star stamps to title page and frontis. In an attractive example of the rare dust jacket with no fading, a little dust-soiled, foxed, and lightly edge-worn, Very Good+. Juvenile fiction by the mysterious American writer whose hardboiled crime stories for Black Mask were some of the most acclaimed in the magazine's run. Rare in its colorful dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140941540
- Title
- Danger Circus
- Author
- Whitfield, Raoul; William Heaslip [Illustrations]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Black Mask, hardboiled, juvenile fiction, series, adventure
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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