Blue City
by MILLAR, Kenneth (aka Ross Macdonald)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; red-orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; 276pp, [2]. Subtle fading to topstain, small booksellers ticket to rear pastedown, with a 2cm patch of wear and minor board exposure at upper edge of front board; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with faint rubber-stamped price left of the clip; spine and rear panel lightly toned, with a few small edge tears; Very Good+. The third of Millar's 4 mystery novels written under his own name. Basis for the 1986 Michelle Manning film starring Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and David Caruso.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21460
- Title
- Blue City
- Author
- MILLAR, Kenneth (aka Ross Macdonald)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Cloth
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