A Lion Is in the Streets: a novel [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Langley, Adria Locke
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good, in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'To my friend Arthur Sharr with all good wishes' by the author on first free endpaper. No stated edition or number line (usually 1st printing for this publisher in the '40s). 482 p.; 21 cm. Pictorial boards, with dust jacket showing the same picture on the front panel but the author's picture and biography on the back panel. Dust jacket has wear, rubbing and chipping. Book has shelfwear to corners and all edges of pictorial boards. Age-darkening to the pageblock. Based on the life of Huey Long and the basis for the James Cagney film of the same name. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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- 3301
- Title
- A Lion Is in the Streets: a novel [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Langley, Adria Locke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Whittlesey House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Huey Long James Cagney
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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