AREN'T MEN BEASTS!
by Sylvaine, Vernon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940. Orange hardcover cloth binding clean and tight with slightly cocked spine. Bumped corners, slight fading to spine. Name ffep, else clean and bright interior. Back hinge cracked - back blank endpaper missing. 284 pages with 4 pages of ads. Upon his son's wedding day, Mr Herbert Holly - a mild and inoffensive dentist - has an exotic lady client fling her garter at him, tore her dress, then accused him of assault. He is arrested, but alluding police, disguises himself as a maiden lady. so effective is his disguise that his his son's employer becomes violently enamoured. and well, one can imagine what happnes from there! Written in novel form, this was produced as a play.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07903
- Title
- AREN'T MEN BEASTS!
- Author
- Sylvaine, Vernon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FARCE STRAND THEATRE PLAY PLAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Adult;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.