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Skin and Bones: Available Copies

Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Pocket Books 1948

Clean unmarked #490, medium slant shelf wear.

Pocket 1948 Binding: Mass Market Paperback paperback.

General age/reading wear. Pages/covers clean.

274pp. Illustrated. Cover by Herbert Roese. Light wear, a few spots of moderate wear. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market

Quantity Available: 1. Category: Humor; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25108.

Small paperback with cover art of man holding on to stocking leg of woman. A bit of bumping to ends of spine and edges. Some rubbing/fading to cover. Page edges dyed red. Pages tight; clean/unmarked. 274 pages plus additional advertising pages. Cover needs reglueing at top spine area. Publishied June 1948. Complete and unabridged. Pocket Book # 490. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Hardcover in very good dust jacket

This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

306 pages in 30 chapters. First chapter is Bland in the Flesh and the last chapter is The Blands Come Through. 1939 reprint of 1933 edition. Red simulated leather boards with faded spine and board edges. Black spine lettering and line drawn decoration on front cover are still dark and very readable. Christmas 1944 gift inscription on front endpaper. Half inch tear in outer board covering at top of spine area. Book store label inside back cover. Pages are reasonably tight with no tears or marks.

Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Jacket Has Some Chipping And Fraying Around The Edges, Few Rub Marks, Jacket Is Clipped On The Inside. Binding Is Solid And Pages Are Clean. "Skin And Bones Is The Story Of Mr. Quintus Bland, The Eminent Photographer, Whose Efforts To Perfect X-Ray Film Had, One Evening, The Unfortunate Effect Of Leaving Mr. Bland In The Position Of An X Ray Film Himself; In Other Words, He Found Himself Suddenly No More Than A Skeleton."

Reprint. Long shallow crease in spine. Covers and page edges generally and evenly discolored by use over time. Interior unmarked. Wonderful capital letter decorations by Herbert Roese. Binding still tight.

Second printing bound in black cloth with gold lettering and decoratio n. Very Good condition. Bumps to the book's upper corners. Slight spin e lean. Mild fading to the spine. No dust jacket.

very good black binding, no jacket like a drill hole in the spine not effecting much

Octavo, hardcover, VG in brown embossed boards. No dj. Name on endpaper else no markings. 306 pp. "When Quintus Bland set out to enjoy the evening he had not the slightest idea that he was destined to become a skeleton." A charming tale by one of America's great humorists. .

Dj is chipped/creased at edges, faded spine, creased at edges, and few closed tears. Book has general shelf wear, edges faded, slighlty soiled. DATE PUBLISHED: 1939 EDITION: 306

First Printing. Pocket Book 490. Very Good to Near Fine condition.

685 Pages. A 1945 Edition of the 1934 Copyright. Brown boards, black spine lettering with decorations. Some wear to cover edges and corners and binding is slightly loose but still relatively tight. No marks or stamps and pages are white. Contents in 15 Short Stories: Congratulations, Nockashima and the Bloodhound, Baggage Checks Out, Just a Dip at Twilight, Alarms and Incursions, The Major's Old And Rare, Exit on Hook and Ladder, The Lower Half's a Lady, Crown's Cosmopoolitan, A Walk Through Town, The House Beautilful, Sue Turns, Man Into Child, Of Human Bondage, and All in a Night's Work.

Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

No dust jacket. Repaired binding. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Dark red boards with cover decorated in black and spine lettered in black. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press (1939), 306 pps. A reading copy of this great book. Sun faded spine panel is torn and coming loose. Boards faded and spine cracked.

490 very good -fine, reading crease Cover by Herbert Roese. paperback,

Skin And Bones

Unread book in perfect condition.

FAIR Cond,.DIRTY. SOILED COVERS AND TEXT PAGES, Sturdy binding will not come apart.but it has been abused.all text is clearly readable, pages are not dog eared, nor generally tattered, mostly just has been little more than teastained. Cover shows wear near spine folds. ; Black titles with 2 character drawings to spine strip.all on light red cloth hard covers.White endpapers. BLACK SPINE TITLES ON RED CLOTH HARD COVERS. COVER ART SHOWS SCENES FROM STORIES.; 685pg heavy pages; Humorous Stories.RIBALD TALES.NOT A COMMON TITLE .