YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP.
by HALLAS, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
FIRST EDITION in red cloth with printing in black; lacking the dust jacket. The book is very good with some bumping to the spine ends and a small spot of wear to the front edge of the front cover; large sticker mostly removed from the front pastedown, (possibly from a rental library); two-inch square owner's label also on the front pastedown; rear endpaper missing; A guy from Oklahoma follows his runaway wife to Hollywood. Once there he falls in with an alcoholic film director. He takes up a life of petty crime and ends up convicted of murder. Even as he is saved from the gas chamber Considered an under-appreciated noir novel in the vein of James M. Cain and Horace McCoy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MONROE STAHR BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16245010
- Title
- YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP.
- Author
- HALLAS, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, lacking the dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McBride
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
MONROE STAHR BOOKS
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About the Seller
MONROE STAHR BOOKS
Biblio member since 2008
Sherman Oaks, California
About MONROE STAHR BOOKS
Specializing in modern first editions, novels about Hollywood, African American literature, and the Countculture.
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