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The Devils Home on Leave (Factory 2)
by Raymond, Derek
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Melville International Crime, 2011. First Thus . Soft cover. Fine. Trade Sized Paperback. First edition thus. 220 pages. VERY FINE. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. But for black dot to bottom edge of text block, not marked and clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
Synopsis
Derek Raymond was the pseudonym of British writer Robert Cook, who was born in London in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton and rejected a life of privilege for a life of adventure. He traveled the world, living in Paris at the Beat Hotel and on New York’s seedy Lower East Side, smuggled artworks into Amsterdam, and spent time in a Spanish prison for publicly making fun of Franco. Finally, he landed back in London, working in the lower echelons of the Kray Brothers’ crime syndicate laundering money, organizing illegal gambling, and setting up insurance scams. He eventually took to writing—first as a pornographer, but then as an increasingly serious novelist, writing about the desperate characters and experiences he’d known in London’s underground. His work culminated in the Factory novels, landmarks that have led many to consider him the founding father of British noir. He died in London in 1993.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21072202
- Title
- The Devils Home on Leave (Factory 2)
- Author
- Raymond, Derek
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Melville International Crime
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- ART, COMICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
Biblio member since 2015
Beaverton, Oregon
About Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
We owned and operated The Looking Glass Bookstore in downtown Portland, Oregon for thirty years. Our citations on this site are the accumulation of first editions, small press, galleys, letter press, comics and comix, and other interesting books and ephemera that we set aside over those years. Almost everything we saved is new, added to boxes that were sealed and kept until now.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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