Search Results: the moth by cain james m

Signet. Paper Back . Good. Good Softcover. Moderate shelfwear to covers, including rubbing. Spine has rubbing and a tear near end. Covers starting to separate from text due to dryness. A few pages mildly soiled. Some pages have a bent corner. Otherwise, pages yellowed, but clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

Signet 811, 1/1/1950 12:00:00 AM. unknown_binding. Very Good. . Shows minor wear and tear, creasing, tanned pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition [stated]. Gray cloth-textured boards with green lettering/decoration, 373+ pages. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction page 61]. Good copy lightly worn and lightly bumped; interior binding cracked after the second acknowledgments page but neither hinge is cracked in well worn Dust Wrapper with some chipping mostly the spine head and one upper corner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages .bx14

NY: Signet Books, 1950. 189pp. Authorized Abridgment. Cover by Alan Harmon. Light wear, slight lean, reading crease. Photos on request. . #811, Sept., First Printing. Paperback. Very Good-. Massmarket.

New York: Knopf, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Solid copy, nice book in a jacket with a small chip and a scrunch to rear panel.

New York: Knopf, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition (stated). Hardcover, 373 pp. Very good, tight bexample, some minor spotting to the cloth. In very good or somewhat better Hawkins designed dust jacket with a small arear of wear to the head of the spine.

Signet, 1950. Stated first edition. Mass Market Paperback. near fine . NOT an ex library book. Binding tight.

Alfred A Knopf, 1948. First Thus. Cloth Covered Boards. Good/Good -. Grey cloth covered boards, light wear to edges, light bumping to head and tail. Book body clean. Illustrated dustjacket shows sunning to edges and spine, moderate wear/chipping to edges and head and tail of spine, price intact, archival brodart protected.

Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. Corners and spine ends of the binding pushed but not rubbed. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, rubbin at the corners and spine ends with small bits of loss, light rubbing to the front gutter.

Alfred A. Knopf. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (mystery, crime, fiction)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition [printing unspecified]. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo, light green cloth with green lettering, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with pale green moth designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., 373 pages + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note on the Type. James M[allahan] Cain (1892 - 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.<br /> <br /> His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity' (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941), and The Butterfly (1947) brought him critical acclaim and an immense popular readership in America and abroad. <br /> <br /> Cain's ninth novel, The Moth, appeared in 1948, the year after The Butterfly.<br /> <br /> UNCOMMON title in this edition and condition. Tight, clean copy with moderate wear to cloth and dust jacket, which… Read More

United Kingdom: Robert Hale, 1950. Clean text. Gently read. Light toning to the edges of the text. Light wear to the board edges. Red cloth boards / spine, gold spine lettering. Dustcover not price clipped. Light shelf / edge wear, light wear to the top and base of the spine. Original mylar cover. Clean copy.. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover w/ jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

THE MOTH, Knopf, 1948, first edition, vg in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Stated first edition. Sm 8vo. 373 pp. Grey cloth with green lettering to spine and author's initials on the front board. Light green topstain which is lightly foxed. The jacket is nearly fine with toning to the edges of the rear flap. Price-intact: $3.00 net on the front flap. No writing, or other defects.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Very clean gray cloth boards with green decoration and author's initials on cover, green lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or fraying; hint of very light surface wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 373 pgs. Color illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, clean with hint of age toning, a few short closed edge tears, some light wear to fold edges. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover..

New York: Signet 811. 1950. Softcover. Good in Wrappers. Price stamp to page 1. Pages darkening. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Small 8vo. [7], 3-373, [5] pp. Light green cloth with blue lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with mild offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns in an age toned jacket with a bit of wear to the folds.

Alfred A Knopf, 1948. Very Good with Dustjacket, 1948 hardcover first edition dustjacket very good condition, . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Scarce in dj this nice. In a Mylar dj cover. Out of print.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Inked name and date to front free end paper, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to the spine ends with shallow loss, slight loss at the upper right corner tip and light rubbing to the folds. (24713). Octavo, jacket illustration by Hawkins, original gray cloth, front and spine stamped in green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut, top edge stained yellow. A novel of a young man's journey through life and love during the Depression and carrying through WW II and after. Cain considered this one of his best novels. Hubin, p. 125.