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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
by McCoy, Horace
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Beige cloth lettered in black along the spine. Red and black ruled lines to the front board, with red topstain. A slight lean, with a pull to the headband. A bookseller ticket from the Hill Bookstall in Syracuse to the rear pastedown. The dust jacket has short tears and shallow chipping, with a few stains to the rear panel. Publisher's price of $2.00 to the rear flap. The author's first and most famous book, depicting the brutal and exploitative dance marathon craze which gripped America in the 1920s and 1930s.; 186 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25666
- Title
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Author
- McCoy, Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Social life and customs United States, FIRST Edition, Fiction Manners and customs Marathons de danse Mystery and detective , fiction Mœurs et coutumes Noir fiction, Dance Dance marathons Danse Depressions
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hard-boiled And Noir;
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Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
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About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- 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....
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