Random Harvest.
by HILTON, JAMES
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Precedes British edition. With "compliments of Little, Brown" bookplate on front pastedown. Some foxing to page edges and endpapers. Else a near fine book in a crisp, near fine dust jacket with some foxing along flap folds. Nice copy of the basis for the 1942 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, featuring Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, and Susan Peters. The film was nominated for seven Oscars including best picture.
Synopsis
Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on The New York Times list of bestselling novels for the year. The novel was successfully adapted into a film of the same name in 1942 under the direction of Mervyn LeRoy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Dagg Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25564
- Title
- Random Harvest.
- Author
- HILTON, JAMES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Robert Dagg Rare Books
Biblio member since 2008
San Francisco, California
About Robert Dagg Rare Books
By appointment only premises, with sales occurring on the internet, at bookfairs, through catalogs and via direct quotation. Established 1989.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...