Pitfall in August by Roman, Howard - 1960

Harper & Brothers, 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. This Stated First Edition book is in very good condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The dust jacket is in fair condition with bumps, scuffs, tears and some chips out of the edges.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. (1960). First Edition. 8vo., pp. 306 .

W. H. Allen, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1961. First Edition. 306 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges.

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1960. 1st edition.. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, hardcover, no dj. Presentation copy, SIGNED by the author. Good condition. Tape-stains on half-title pg from paper once taped in, lower spine bumped & 1-inch tear to edge of upper spine cloth; otherwise contents clean, binding tight. 306 p., photo of author laid in.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1960]. 8vo. 306, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over grey-green boards, w/ d.j. (slight edgewear), original Harper & Bros. promotional bookmark for Suspense novels laid-in, NF/VG+. First edition.

First Edition stated. 306 p. Dust jacket is worn with some edge tears/chipping and price sticker residue. Hardcover book is in Fine condition.From the dust jacket:Berton Roueché writes: "I've read it with enjoyment. It's really quite an unusual thriller—wonderfully muted." When Bob Turbett got out of the cab in front of Mrs. West's, the first thing he noticed was the lawns. He was the man who would have to mow them. It was his summer job, helping out at Mrs. West's in return for room and breakfast while he was study at summer school. The house was an angular gray monster; the woman who opened the door to his ring had eyes that blinked and roamed, and uncared-for hair, held in place randomly. She said she was Miss Summers, Mrs. West's sister. "Mrs. West doesn't feel up to seeing you right now," she said. "You're going to have the room on the top floor. Betty Clay used to have it, but she's a paying guest now, on the second floor." Miss Summers was about to help Bob carry his things up to the… Read More

New York: Harper, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good in good dustwrapper. Scrape on the inside cover, rough-cut pages, 3inch mark on the back of dustwrapper little wear on corners and spine-ends of dustwrapper, minor shelf-rub. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 306p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Light wear at the head of the spine; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is mildly edgworn and rubbed along the edges, but otherwise intact. A suspense-thriller novel.

London: W H Allen, 1961 Book. Very Good ++. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition. VG++/VG++. 1st UK Edition. Horror suspense. Book has spine head and heel crush, and slight offset on the end-papers. Jacket has very mild edgewear on the spine head/heel and the flap hinge corners, an d interior foxing. Scan available on request..

London: W.H.Allen,1961.. 1st British ed. "This full-bodied novel of suspense brilliantly depicts the plight of a compassionate young man caught in a web of deceit and madness." Pp.306. Red cloth. G+.