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Vanity Row
by Burnett, W.R
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. Signed first edition, first printing of Vanity Row by W.R. Burnett.. Octavo, 276pp, [2]. Blue illustrated hardcover, title printed on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Light toning to upper edge of spine, wear to tips. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $3.00 on front flap, light foxing to verso, bright illustration on cover and spine, shallow chipping to spine, a very good example. Dust jacket design by Harry Ford. (Hubin, 58) (Johnson II, 18) Signed on the half title by the author. Vanity Row is a hard-boiled crime novel about big-city corruption and the basis of the 1956 film "Accused of Murder.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14499
- Title
- Vanity Row
- Author
- Burnett, W.R
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition, first printing of Vanity Row by W.R. Burnett.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- first edition WR Burnett, Asphalt Jungle, saint johnson, little men big world burnett, first edition Little Caesar, High Sierra Burnett, The Silver Eagle Burnett, high sierra burnett,
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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