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Mischief
by Armstrong, Charlotte
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. First edition of Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong.. Octavo, 182pp. Black hardcover, title printed in yellow on spine. No additional printings on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Solid binding, clean text. Toning to endpapers and a few pages of text, light foxing to page ends. Spine ends and corners rubbed, worn through in places. Light soiling along top of covers. In publisher's illustrated dust jacket, retail price of $2.50 on front flap, light toning, soiling to back panel. Vertical crease along spine. Dampstains to both panels. Chipping and tears along top and bottom edges, two tape repairs on verso. Charlotte Armstrong's Mischief was the basis for the 1952 film Don't Bother to Knock, starring Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark and Anne Bancroft.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11849
- Title
- Mischief
- Author
- Armstrong, Charlotte
- Illustrator
- First edition of Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- first edition Charlotte Armstrong, Mischief Charlotte Armstrong, Lay On Mac Duff Armstrong, Case of the Weird Sisters Armstrong, Innocent Flower Charlotte Armstrong, Unsuspected Charlotte Armstrong, Chocolate Cobweb Charlotte Armstrong, Fatal Lady Ch
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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- A.N.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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