Big Brother and Other Stories
by Beach, Rex
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1926. No dustwrapper, old damp-marking to red boards and some fading to spine, but black titles thereon are still clear, those on front board are rubbed but still readable. Some bumping to spine ends and corners, original owner's name on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains six stories by the author, two of which were filmed. The titles are: "Big Brother" (fimed as a silent in 1923 starring Tom Moore and Edith Roberts: and as a talkie, "Young Donovan's Kid" in 1931 starring Richard Dix, Jackie Cooper and Marion Shilling), "The White Brant", "Recoil" (filmed as "The Recoil", a silent in 1924 starring Mahlon Hamilton and Betty Blythe; and as a talkie, "White Shoulders" in 1931 starring Mary Astor and Jack Holt), "The Obvious Thing", "The Talking Vase" and "Too Fat to Fight". No publication date shown, but was originally published in 1923, this is a slightly later reprint. 319pp.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013015
- Title
- Big Brother and Other Stories
- Author
- Beach, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Young-Donovans-kid, White-Shoulders
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
JimsOldBooks
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
Biblio member since 2004
Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
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- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...