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The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
by John Cheever
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. G/G. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. Wear to spine ends and chip to mid spine. The textblock has a toned square to the half-title page from a newspaper cutout of a Cheever photo. Indentation of erased price to endpaper. No writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00) with sunning to the spine, chipping to the spine head, and a small hole mid-spine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 185 pages. 5½ x 8¼
Eight short stories, set in the fictional New England town of Shady Hill, where the suburbanite residents exist in an allegorical hell: "a nice house with a garden and a place outside for cooking meat," and where "there was no turpitude; there had not been a divorce…there had not even been a breath of scandal."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4323
- Title
- The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
- Author
- John Cheever
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 185
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.25
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- short stories, suburbia, cheever
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Armadillo Alley Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
Biblio member since 2020
Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- Chipping
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- Tight
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- Brodart
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- First Edition
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