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Tucker's People
by WOLFERT, Ira
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75); rust-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in ivory on spine and front cover; 496pp, [4]. Spine ends gently nudged, with a barely-noticeable shallow stain to lower corner tips of pp.439-484; a tight, Near Fine copy. Wolfert's first novel, and his only venture into crime fiction. Tucker's People, based loosely on the life and times of mobster Dutch Schultz, was praised as one of the finest and most realistic crime novels of its day - a novel Walter Rideout credited as "one of the most distinguished novels of the whole forties." Basis for Abraham Polonsky's sinister film noir Force of Evil (1948), starring John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, and Thomas Gomez. THE DARK PAGE, Vol.1, p.280-281; RIDEOUT p.299.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23816
- Title
- Tucker's People
- Author
- WOLFERT, Ira
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- L.B. Fischer
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rideout;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- First Edition
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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