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So Many Doors
by Oakley Hall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, edges and extremities lightly rubbed, with a slightly rolled spine, light abrasion to topstain. Previous owner inscri/About Very Good jacket, unclipped, with creasing and shallow chipping about edges, some toning and soiling, small dampstain to h
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Thatched brown cloth with blue and white decorative title to spine, publisher's blue topstain. 302 pp. Very Good, edges and extremities lightly rubbed, with a slightly rolled spine, light abrasion to topstain. Previous owner inscription to front free end paper. Otherwise bright, sound, clean./About Very Good jacket, unclipped, with creasing and shallow chipping about edges, some toning and soiling, small dampstain to heel of spine. Else bright and attractive.. Stated first printing of Hall's highly scarce second novel, the first to be published under his full name (his first, and a handful of subsequent mysteries, were published as "O.M. Hall" and then "Jason Manor"). Published while teaching Fiction at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Hall would go on to become a respected novelist and professor at UC Irvine, but this early hard-boiled novel, set in the slums and stockyards of the Great Depression, would remain out of print from 1959 to 2018.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1641
- Title
- So Many Doors
- Author
- Oakley Hall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Thatched brown cloth with blue and white decorative title to spine, publisher's b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, edges and extremities lightly rubbed, with a slightly rolled spine, light abrasion to topstain. Previous owner inscri
- Jacket Condition
- About Very Good jacket, unclipped, with creasing and shallow chipping about edges, some toning and soiling, small dampstain to h
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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