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Room to Swing
by Lacy, Ed; [Zinberg, Leonard]
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. [vi], 175, [1] pp. Original gray cloth backstrip and red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black and red. Near Fine with light wear, small bookplate remnant to front free endpaper faint tidemark to rear paste down. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket with dampstaining visible on back panel, otherwise only on verso, spine sunned. A hard-boiled Edgar-winning crime novel that features a protagonist who has been called "the first credible African-American private eye," Toussaint Moore. Rare in hardcover, especially with jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140938444
- Title
- Room to Swing
- Author
- Lacy, Ed; [Zinberg, Leonard]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Toussaint Moore, mystery, Edgar Award winner, Black fiction, detective
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
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- 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....
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