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Height of the Scream
by Campbell, Ramsey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0870540750
- ISBN 13
- 9780870540752
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Pub, 1976. Book. Very Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 229 pages. First edition, first printing [one of 4,000 copies printed]. A collection of early short horror stories by a young British acolyte of H.P. Lovecraft. No previous ownership marks. Mild shelf-wear/age soiling to dust-jacket but overall a very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Book is in as new condition, jacket in very good+. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016211
- Title
- Height of the Scream
- Author
- Campbell, Ramsey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870540750
- ISBN 13
- 9780870540752
- Publisher
- Arkham House Pub
- Place of Publication
- Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Horror Stories, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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.
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