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RAIN IN THE DOORWAY
by Smith, Thorne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication, with an original drawing, by the author to writer and Los Angeles Times literary editor Paul Jordan-Smith on the half-title: "For Paul Jordan-Smith who broke out the bottle of Old Priory for which I was truly thankful, Thorne Smith". Jordan-Smith's bookplate appears on the front pastedown. The inebriated adventures of a cuckold husband, his three partners in a big-city department store, and a salesgirl from the pornographic books department. This is Smith's most openly erotic novel, with many direct suggestions of sexual encounters, accompanied by cartoons of nude women cavorting with the protagonists, drawn by artist Herbert Roese. Octavo. Original rose cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Small ink notation to the front pastedown. Some light fading along the spine. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with a bit of general shelfwear; otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74817
- Title
- RAIN IN THE DOORWAY
- Author
- Smith, Thorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Literature, Humor
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- First Edition
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