A STONE FOR DANNY FISHER
by Robbins, Harold
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/DJ Very Good
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/DJ Very Good. green cloth with gilt-decorated spine & embossed emblem on front cover, 1st ed. (1952) ,[404] pages, red topstaining in Very Good (minor wear to spine ends, top front edge has short closed tear & slightly rubbed corner) Dust Jacket. Lightly cocked, binding clean / unmarked, owners name (covers front free endpaper), otherwise text is clean / unmarked. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Bright / clean Dust Jacket. Basis for Elvis Presley film "King Creole
Synopsis
A Stone For Danny Fisher is a very serious, early novel by Harold Robbins that looks at the effect of the Great Depression on a lower-middle class Jewish family. Written in 1952 it is actually set in the period up to 1944.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CE234723
- Title
- A STONE FOR DANNY FISHER
- Author
- Robbins, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
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Frey Fine Books
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Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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