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.

First edition first printing of the ninth novel by this author. No dust jacket. Light edge wear. Light tanning to the pages. In very good condition.

The New American Library, 1952. Third printing. Softcover. Good. AUTHORIZED ABRIDGEMENT. Signet Books 811. 189, [3] p. 18 cm. Paperback. Slight spine lean. Some creases. Scuff on rear.

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.

London; Robert Hale, 1949 1st Australian edition. Good peach cloth hardcover. No dj. Hinges split. 356p.

Robert Hale. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. no jacket. undated. original red boards. near very fine with no inscriptions. the binding is square and tight.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: Knopf, 1948. Third printing. Hardcover. Good. Novel relating the life of a young singer who loses his voice with puberty. Bumped corners

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.

New York: Knopf, 1948. Third printing August 1948. Good. New York: Knopf, 1948. Third printing August 1948. Good.

Robert Hale, London, 1949. First Australian edition, orange cloth, 251pp, VG+ (v sl cocked, v sl edge wear, front boards unevenly sunned , v sl foxed prelims & edgesv sl sunned soiled & rubbed) d/w VG- (4in open tear down front flap, v sl creases wear & tears to extrems, v sl chipped spine head & foot, v sl internal foxing, v sl rubbed sunned & soiled)

Hale. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is a bit marked and torn. Netting visible. Some tanning. Seemingly 1st.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Robert Hale, London, 1949. First Australian edition. . 8vo, 356pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. .

Robert Hale, Sydney, c. 1950. 356 pp, previous owner's details on front paste-down, edges and end-papers foxed, d/j rear damp stained, minor losses to top and base of d/j spine, else very good copy in good, illustrated d/j.. Australian issue (10/6 on d/j flap).

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

London: Hale, 1949. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. chipped dust jacket 356pp.,