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You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
by Hallas, Richard
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1938. First edition. 8vo, 213pp. Red cloth lettered in black. Staining to boards, worn at corners and spine ends, spotting to page edges, page block toned. A very good copy in facsimile jacket.
Presentable first edition of this classic of hardboiled detective fiction set in Southern California.
Presentable first edition of this classic of hardboiled detective fiction set in Southern California.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5892
- Title
- You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
- Author
- Hallas, Richard
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, 213pp. Red cloth lettered in black. Staining to boards, worn at corners and spine ends, spotting to page edges, page block
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peruse the Stacks
Biblio member since 2021
GIG HARBOR, Washington
About Peruse the Stacks
Independent bookseller out of Gig Harbor, WA offering all manner of signed, first edition, and collectible books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- 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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