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The Young Can Die Protesting [Inscribed]
by WELLS, Tobias (pseud. of Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes)
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- first
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],159,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Sally / with fond affection / Tobias Wells." Some offsetting to gutters at endpapers (from binder's glue), a barely discernable trace of spotting to front cover; Near Fine. In a supplied dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.50), with light wear to extremities, a thin adhesive strip on verso of spine panel, and three spots of adhesive on verso of each flap; presentable looking, but only Very Good. A late Crime Club title, featuring Detective Knute Severson of the Boston Police Department, working undercover as a hippie in order to infiltrate the ranks of the anti-war movement. He infiltrates the movement successfully, when "psychedelic bedlam" breaks loose after a hippie leader is found swinging from a noose in a church choir loft. Elusive in commerce. HUBIN, p.430.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64025
- Title
- The Young Can Die Protesting [Inscribed]
- Author
- WELLS, Tobias (pseud. of Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Sixties; Student Movements; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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