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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition, stated. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), silver letters, uncut, 277 pp. Near Fine, with former-owner bookplate; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Shadow on the Hearth is the story of Gladys Mitchell, a young, attractive Westchester housewife who, through hope and courage, successfully fought the chaos in the wake of an atomic war. This day started as it usually did. Gladys occupied herself with the irksome but satisfying routine of a pleasant and happy housegold. Then she half noticed the sound -- a sort of far-off thunder. Soon there was the ominous feeling of something wrong; and finally the dawning, numbing comprehension... Then the frantic terror, mounting slowly as the great mushrooming cloud had mounted a few hours ago over New York Harbor. As the holocaust reached out and seemed to envelope all, Gladys thought first of her family. Was her husband alive or…
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Shadow on the Hearth.
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Doubleday, 1950-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 7x5x1. Shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases, toning, light soiling & small tears in a mylar cover.
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Shadow on the Hearth
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Doubleday, 1950. 1st. hardcover. Fine in VG+litely edgeworn dj.
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Shadow On The Hearth
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Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x1. 1950 Hardcover Edition. Small bookstore stamp inside back cover. Rubbing & small chip to DJ edges. Small stain to inside spine of DJ. Deckled paged. Pages unmarked.
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Shadow on the Hearth [a tense, prophetic novel of one woman's world --after the Bomb falls!]
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Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1950. 1st . Hardcover. near fine in vg+ dj/Dust Jacket Included. Most attractive and tight Edward Kasper dj. near fine in vg+ dj, black boards 277 pgs
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953. First English edition. Very Good book in a Fair, chipped and worn dust jacket.
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Shadow on the Hearth
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Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Used; Good. First edition of the first novel from the "little mother of science fiction". At the time she was married to Frederik Pohl.
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Shadow on the Hearth
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1950. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 277 pages. Light edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. small piece missing from top edge; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 851404
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Shadow on the Hearth
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New York: Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Light stain to the spine, else near fine in very good, lightly soiled dustwrapper with some creasing and rubbing and a tear to the top of the front panel.
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Shadow on the Hearth
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First edition, first printing of the first non-serialized novel by this author. Light edge wear. Slight spine slant. Spots of soiling to the top edge of the book. In very good / very good condition.
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH, Doubleday, 1950, first edition, just about fine in dust-wrapper with a slighlty darkened rear dust-wrapper panel. The authors first book
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Shadow on the Hearth
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New York, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First edition (stated) / first printing. Book is in fine condition with a very good (tiny chips at corners, 2 scuffs on front) unclipped dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
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Shadow on the Hearth
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Doubleday, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Good. Sturdy book, blue cloth, bright silver lettering on spine, 277 pages. A woman in Westchester County NY copes with nuclear holocaust. DJ heavy paper beneath mylar, background in purple and red of woman and child and exploding city. DJ has very slight wear to front tips, microtear and very tiny tear at top front edge, rubbed spots on spine. Near Good/Very Fine.
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The Shadow On The Hearth
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Shadow On The Hearth
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Doubleday. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.00 price intact). Published by Doubleday, 1950. Octavo. Black boards stamped in silver. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 277 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. First edition. Some offsetting to end papers, penciled comment to front free end paper, some rubs to lower board edges, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, spine a bit age darkened, some soiling and staining to the rear panel. (27988). Octavo, black boards, spine stamped in silver. Post nuclear war story of a mother coping in the family setting. Anatomy of Wonder (1995): 3-124.
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH .
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doubleday, first edition hardcover. 1950, fine in near fine dust jacket , edge bumping with faint creases, very tiny corner chips
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH
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NY: Doubleday, 1950. 1st printing, 1950. Black cloth; stamped in silver on spine. "Post-catastrophe science fiction novel; how a woman copes with the chaos in the wake of a nuclear war" (Locke; Spectrum I, p. 155). Author's first book, filmed as "Atomic Attack" in 1954 (ABC). Previous owner's name on front pastedown; dj chipped at all corners with a few short edge tears, edgeworn; sticker pull from spine. Near Fine in an otherwise Very Good dj.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-.
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH
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NY: Doubleday, 1950. 1st printing, 1950. Black cloth; stamped in silver on spine. "Post-catastrophe science fiction novel; how a woman copes with the chaos in the wake of a nuclear war" (Locke; Spectrum I, p. 155). Author's first book, filmed as "Atomic Attack" in 1954 (ABC). Corners bumped.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+.
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SHADOW ON THE HEARTH .
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doubleday, first edition hardcover. 1950, fine in near fine dust jacket , couple closed edge slits, bumping
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