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The Darby Trial
by Pearce, Dick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1954. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition in unclipped dust jacket (jacket design by Reynold C. Pollak). Clean red marbled paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, red and white lettering on spine. Tiny bump and spot of wear to one lower corner tip. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 256 pages. Bright dust jacket has chipping to corners and top and bottom spine edge, is not price clipped; photo and bio of author on rear panel. Novel set in San Francisco courtroom where Tom Rogers, an assistant attorney general of the Justice Department, is engaged in the battle of his life. It is up to him to strip the cloak of respectability from the unctuous and powerful Dr. Claude T. T. Darby, prophet of the Congregation of the Militant Meek, and expose him to the unbelieving American public as a top functionary of the Communist underground..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029886
- Title
- The Darby Trial
- Author
- Pearce, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- FICTION, COURTROOM NOVEL, COMMUNISM IN AMERICA, DICK PEARCE, FIRST EDITION
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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