Butterfly

NY: Vintage, 1979. FINE condition in NEAR FINE covers. NY. Vintage Books. SOFTCOVER. October 1979 Reprint of the 1947 Edition published by Knopf. AS NEW, bound in original tan glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Chipping all along front cover fore-edge, see image. Motion picture tie-in cover. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Reprint. Soft Cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY JAMES M. CAIN. Inscribed to a friend and dated Dec. 21, 1947 Hollywood, Calif. in acknowledgement for help on his book The Moth. 165pp. Bound in tan cloth stamped in green,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Very Good. Small 8vo. [v], v-xvi, [4], 3-166, [5] pp. Peach cloth with green lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, light brown topstain. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good+ book with a spot of offsetting to the front board… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), yellow cloth with green lettering, archival polyester-protected pictorial Grosset & Dunlop dust jacket (unclipped), Preface by the author, xvi, [xvii-xviii] + 165 pages + [3] Printer's Note]. James M[allahan] Cain (1892 - 1977)… Read more about this item

VG+ / VG+ 1947 Knopf, stated first edition. Hardcover. One small (1/2") tear to jacket cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 165pp. Sharp stated First Edition. Square tight and clean throughout with a touch of wear to spine ends and edges but fairly mild. Toning to endpapers. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00) has some wear to spine ends… Read more about this item

NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. F/VG+. PUB 1947. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT WITH A TRACEOF FOXING TO THE REAR ENDPAPER. D.J. IS LIGHTLY WORN AT THE CORNERS WITHA TEAR WITH ASSOCIATED CREASE AT THE REAR SPINE CORNER, SOME LIGHT RUB TOTHE VERTICAL FOLDS, STAINING TO THE VERSO… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition of The Butterfly, by James M. Cain.. Octavo, 165pp. Tan cloth, title stamped in green on spine. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Some light soiling to cloth covers. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, rubbing to… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 12mo. 165 pp. Publisher's tan cloth, no jacket. VG, covers slightly soiled, small chip at bottom of spine. Previous owner name on free endpaper, only 1 in. of front free endpaper remains.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Very slightly bowed else about fine in an about near fine dustwrapper with creasing and tiny tears. Basis for the 1982 film starring Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora and Orson Welles.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. VG+. 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. VG+ condition. Tiny rubs/bumps to the corners. S ome dusting to the spine. Age toning to the pages. No dust jacket. .

New York: Alfred Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. vg+/vg. octavo. 165pp Nice copy in dust jacket. Jacket shows some edge rubbing. A couple of small chips out at top and bottom of dj spine. Tiny piece out of middle of dj. In a brodart protective wrapper.

New York: SIGNET, 1949. Book. Near Fine. Mass Market Paperback. 1st Edition. Paperback - Signet 720 - 1st. Edition / 3rd. Print (December 1949) - NF (appears unread) - "An explosive novel of human passion, it is, according to its author, "a morality tale." - The story is set in rural West Virginia in the late 1930s and concerns a… Read more about this item

NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. F/VG+. PUB 1947. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF RUB AT THE CORNERS WITH SHALLOW SURFACECHIPPING AT THE ENDS OF THE SPINE PANEL, SURFACE WEAR AT THE FRONTFORE-EDGE FOLD, AND PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY ATTRACTIVE CLEAN AND TIGHTCOPY OF THE BOOK WITH A JACKET THAT IS UNFADED AND VERY CLEAN… Read more about this item

NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. NF/NONE. PUB 1947. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. . Keywords: NOVEL, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf., 1947.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Dust Jacket. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in green. A virtually fine copy in a fine dust wrapper with a faint touch of rubbing at the edges. A sharp, clean copy. ¶ Hard-boiled backwoods 'noir' novel. A swift story that is packaged with… Read more about this item

New York: KNOPF.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. INSCRIBED by James M. Cain to the esteemed cultural critic John Leonard on the front end-paper. The inscription is dated on February 11, 1969 with the place being Hyattsville at Cain's home. Less than a month later in March Leonard wrote… Read more about this item

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Original cloth in DJ. Book is near fine. On verso of jacket one sees a semi-circle stain that looks like it could have been left by a large coffee mug. Presents nicely in mylar.

1/1/1947. Hardcover w/DJ. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 1st edition. Dust jacket in protective cover; spine edges creased and chipped; beige cloth with green decoration and lettering on cover and spine; binding tight; text bright. G/G