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Signet 884, 1951. VG -. paperback

Alfred A Knopf, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. First edition, 1938. Hardcover, no jacket. Text unmarked. Binding becoming brittle. An owner's name inside. Exterior lightly shelfworn, soiled. Book is at a lean. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available!

berkley book, , (Reprints Berkley 328), . G-134, very good , (HARDBOILED NOVEL), paperback,

Berkley, 1958. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Light wear to cover. Pages tanned. Clean, tight copy. G+

NY: Signet/New American Library, 1951. Soft cover. Near Fine. First Signet printing of this Hollywood novel by the American hard-boiled writer, author of They Shoot Horses Don't They? and others. First edition thus (stated first printing). Perfect-bound in pictorial color wraps, 7-1/8 x 4-1/4 in. Textblock edges stained pink. 144pp. Light rubbing and some spots of surface loss to front cover. Else about near fine. Spine uncreased. Signet 884. Cover art by Raymond Pease.

Black Mask, 2009. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. octavo, paper wraps, book is in very good + condition with mild wear to wraps, 123pp.

New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Corporation (1955) 128 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled and a bit rubbed. Leaves age toned. Still a nice copy.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

IndoEuropeanPublishing.com, 2011-04-03. Paperback. Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

ZOMBA Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. AS NEW FIRST EDITION IN AS NEW DJ..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow cloth titled in maroon on spine; maroon topstain; 236pp. Tiny bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper; spine is sunned; faint finger-soiling to covers; spine ends pushed; rear hinge cracked with webbing exposed. Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. Author's third novel. A boy and a girl, stage-struck movie extras, try to satisfy their ambitions in Hollywood, but the corruption they find is too much for them on top of their continuing poverty and hunger. HUBIN, p.266; BAIRD 1596.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Serpent's Tail. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First British Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 222 pp, prev owner's ex-libris bookplate affixed to ffep, age-darkening inside fr and rear cover to pastedown and e.p., brown cover cloth 5.3" x 7.6" boards with slight impact indent to top board edge & dark brown letters Near Fine, binding tight with forward lean, text block edges VG-Fine, DJ unclipped, inner flaps age-darkened, top/tail spine chipped and worn. Handles nicely in acetate protector..

1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. Stated First Edition. 235 pages. Ex-rental library in trimmed dustjacket with flaps attached to boards, some chipping to edges, spine heavily sunned. Binding cocked but solid. Rough but presentable copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Fiction::Mystery & Thriller ; Inventory No: 030295. BZDB373 Fiction::Mystery & Thriller ; Unbranded Horace McCoy I Should Have Stayed Home

London: Arthur Baker Ltd, 1938. First UK Edition. The author's third book, a hard-boiled depression-era novel set in Hollywood. Centered around an aspiring young actor and actress, living on the skids and hoping for a break, the novel explores the cut-throat and exploitative nature of the movie business, giving glimpses of "the whole range of Hollywood life - its parties and night clubs, its mansions and cheap bungalows, its gallery of fantastic characters, merciless business men, frauds, geniuses, and vultures..." (from front flap). Hubin, p.260. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in navy blue on spine and covers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],222pp. Hint of sunning to spine, touch of offset from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 7/6 net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few small nicks to spine ends and a few closed tears; Very Good+.