Spider Boy: a scenario for a moving picture
by Carl Van Vechten
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Bethel, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. (1st edition). Hardcover. GOOD. Tight, light age tanning of pages, age soil and stain at bottom of spine to exterior, square. Ex-library with expected markings including pocket. Tan cloth with worn gilt trim. No jacket. A comic novel lampooning Hollywood during the silent movie era. A reclusive New York playwright tries to go on vacation but ends up kidnapped by a starlet who wants him to write her the perfect script. 297 pages.
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Details
- Seller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8-9T007
- Title
- Spider Boy: a scenario for a moving picture
- Author
- Carl Van Vechten
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- (1st edition)
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
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Bethel, Connecticut
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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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....