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The Doctor's Son and Other Stories
by O'Hara, John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt , Brace. Fair. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. No DJ. First edition, 1935. Black cloth, boards rubbed and discolored. Good reading copy, Front hinge cracked, endpaper with torn and chipped Ex-Libris label; Ex-Libris label also on the blank endpaper. Pencil writing on the endpapers. DJ clipped on rear pastedown shows a photo and bio of the author. One page, page 121 is torn at the spine. 293 pages. Includes short stories such as Early Afternoon, Coffee Pot, Mort and Mary, Screen Test, On His Hands, Lombard’s Kick, Frankie, Mr Cass and the Ten Thousand Dollars; Ten Eyck or Pershing, Pershing or Ten Eyck, Alone, It Wouldn't Break Your Arm, Sportsmanship, All the Girls He Wanted, etc .
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- Bookseller
- Bookshop Baltimore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24141
- Title
- The Doctor's Son and Other Stories
- Author
- O'Hara, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt , Brace
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Short Stories -- Fiction, John O'hara -- Short Stories, Mort And Mary, Lombard's Kick, The Man Who Had To Talk To Somebody, The Eyck Or Pershing, Mr Cass And The Ten Thousand Dollars, Of Thee I Sing, Baby
- Bookseller catalogs
- RARE;
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- Fair
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- Reading Copy
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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