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NY: Knopf, 1952. 1st US. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Hardcover, 271 pages, previous owner's stamp on several pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Record # 4887
The Devil That Failed by Maurice Samuel - 1952
by Maurice Samuel
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The Devil That Failed
by Maurice Samuel
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Former church library; light wear; faded spine, pages toned but a good sound binding. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Standard Weight. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 151316. .
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- Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published 1952
- Keywords Fiction; NOISBN
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Devil That Failed, The
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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The Devil That Failed
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Oneonta, New York, United States
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Fantastic fiction recalling Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." From Kirkus Reviews: "curious story of a professor who wakes to find he has become a giant, and discovers himself in the care of a demoniac Hungarian doctor and two unstable female nurses. The professor finally figures a way out of his predicament by recalling a scientific rule, but this doesn't happen until both reader and he have sweated it out through many an anxious page." Overall a nice and crisp copy, bottom edge of book shows sun fading. Some soil and light fading to jacket. 5.5 x 8.5 inches with 271 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/Good. Illus. by None.
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The Devil That Failed: The Ominous Adventure of a Twentieth-Century Gulliver
by Samuel, Maurice
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smyrna, Georgia, United States
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New York, NY: Knopf, 1952. First edition (stated) /first printing. Book is in very good + condition with a very good + (darkening to spine, light wear at extremities, slight moisture stain at base of spine) unclipped dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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The Devil That Failed
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Hagerstown, Maryland, United States
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Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1952. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite wear only; unclipped price, in mylar; ownr's name/stamp; 4271 clean, unmarked pages/index. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 Vo.
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The Devil That Failed
by Maurice Samuel
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 269 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers and a stamp. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Gilt lettering is dulled. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily sunned. Stamp on front.
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The Devil That Failed
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1953. No edition remarks. 271 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Archive copy. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over. Pencil to panels.
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THE DEVIL THAT FAILED
by SAMUEL, MAURICE
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BURLINGTON, Wisconsin, United States
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NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1952. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. ISBN: D.J. ART BY GEORGE SALTER. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HASA TINY CHIP AT THE TOP OF LIGHTLY SUNNED SPINE PANEL, A TINY TEAR AT THETOP OF THE REAR SLIGHTLY TANNED REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AEXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.. Keywords: NOVEL, MACABRE FANTASY, ABCDEF.
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THE DEVIL THAT FAILED
by Samuel, maurice
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Webster, New York, United States
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knopf, first edition 1952 hardcover. fine book in a near fine dust jacket , darker spine
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THE DEVIL THAT FAILED.
by Samuel, Maurice (1895-1972)
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Ione, California, United States
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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1952.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in black cloth with copper lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some minor edgewear, spine slightly toned) . First printing. "The Ominous Adventure of a Twentieth-century Gulliver" - A novel described as "half a thriller and half a parable, which relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden catastrophe too big for ordinary life." The author was born in Romania, educated in England, and came to the US to live in 1914. 271 pp. Dustjacket by George Salter.
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