This Was Ivor Trent
by Houghton, Claude
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. "An extremely interesting novelist, and a genuinely original one." - J. B. Priestley. "One of the most interesting and one of the most important novelists now writing in England." - Hugh Walpole. "At his best, he writes as well as any living man." - L.A.G. Strong. One dark, foggy night, the eminent novelist Ivor Trent is on his way to a flat in a sordid London lodging house where he plans to begin work on his newest book, undisturbed by his friends, who all believe him to have gone abroad. On his way there, he glimpses a figure in the fog and is struck with terror when he realizes it is a man from the future. He collapses on the front step of the house, where the proprietor finds him, raving and delirious. Meanwhile, Arthur Rendell, a lonely widower who found solace in on.... Signature on ffep, a few light spots on cover, else fine; tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (viii), 303 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29472
- Title
- This Was Ivor Trent
- Author
- Houghton, Claude
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- novels, Literature, Science Ficiton, Mystery, Suspense, Claude Houghton, Supernatural Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- 12mo
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