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The Lost Weekend
by Jackson, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Author's first novel, probably the most realistic & chilling account about alcoholism ever penned, made into the equally dark 1945 film starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman, which won Best Picture & other accolades. A FIRST EDITION, Seventh Printing, this hardcover book has red cloth-covered boards with a black title box & red lettering to front cover & spine. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright, binding strong & straight, hinges intact. Pages off-white with modest tanning to edges, light foxing to endpapers. Former owner's name in pen to ffep. The unclipped DJ is just Good, with mild-moderate rubbing to extremities, light chipping at heel of spine & all corners; nicely protected in mylar cover. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020691
- Title
- The Lost Weekend
- Author
- Jackson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- ALCOHOLIC DT DELERIUM TREMENS BINGE DRINKING AA ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS RELAPSE RECOVERY FICTION MOVIE RAY MILLAND BLACKOUT SOBRIETY SOBER FILM NOIR 1940S FORTIES DRUNK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction-General; Addictions/Eating Disorders/Recreational Drugs;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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.
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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