Heroes of the Horrors
by Beck, Calvin Thomas
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0020121407
- ISBN 13
- 9780020121404
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. First Edition. Large octavo, (7" x 10.5"), illustrated stiff wraps. 353pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white movie stills and movie poster and playbill reproductions. By a pre-eminent connoisseur of the genre and author of "Scream Queens: Heroines of the Horrors". Includes film photographs of Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Lon Caney Jr. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and many, many more. A very tight, square, crisp, clean, fresh unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05448
- Title
- Heroes of the Horrors
- Author
- Beck, Calvin Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0020121407
- ISBN 13
- 9780020121404
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- HORROR, MURDER, MOVIE, FILM, HOLLYWOOD, CINEMA, CHANEY, LON, VINCENT PRICE, PETER LORRE, BELA LUGOSI, BORIS KARLOFF, HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHS, CRITICISM, ACTOR, HERO, ACTING, BECK, SCARY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig 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...
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...