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Thunder on the Left: Available Copies

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85

Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85

Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85

[1st printing] Mar. 1946; #582. Cover art by Jonas. Creasing; laminatye peeling; laminate lodst from rear, which is rubbed/soiled; mild tanning; first page erasures.

HB Fair. Spine ends frayed. Reading copy only

Second paperback ed. Very good condition. Pocket #51.

Piece(s) of the spine missing. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Owner's inscription on front endpaper; front hinge loosening ; 7.50 X 5.10 X 1.40 inches

large part of dj spine missing, previous owner name in ink in front, no other marks, tight binding, dj not price cut,

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VG.Back wrapper has 3/4" tear inward from the fore-edge midway down; a bit of archival tape is called for there. Remarkably clean and tidy otherwise. Spine seems a bit sunned although the title and author are still good and black; wraps front and back also appear somewhat sunned esp. to fore-edges. Lamination gives the impression of a crease to the top corner of front wrapper, although there is actually no crease. Slight chipping to lamination at head of spine. Pages slightly toning around margins but remain clear and legible. No names, marks, underlining, or highlighting. A great reading copy. First thus.

First issued in The Travellers' Library 1928. Blue boards,gilt lettering and design to spine,page edges spotted ,contents clean,appears unread.

2nd Pocket printing. Light creases to the spine. Slight wear to the edges.

1st & ** FG 3088 & FG 3055 & FG 2060**

1949. No Edition Remarks. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1925. Early Printing. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Clean black boards with black lettering in blue paste down title box label (clean and unchipped) on cover, paste down label on spine is unchipped, has a few tiny nicks. Very short closed tears to top/base of spine. Soft blue endpapers are clean except for neatly penned gift inscription on front free endpaper. Pages are clean and bright; no writing or marks. 273 pgs. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Fiction.

582, , very good , (FANTASY NOVEL), , paperback,

273 p.

VG in Fair DJ. Serious matters rarely mentioned in ficton except under the mitigating glamor of romance or a tawdry slice of cynicism. DJ edges tanned and tattered.

General wear to boards with wear to the spine ends. Hinges are a bit cracked with webbing visible. Content has toning and the previous owners name on the 2nd page. No DJ.

Novel. Covers lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped. Front hinge cracked, ink price stamp on the rear endpaper, interior clean.

Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth-textured boards with author/title light blue paper labels affixed [as issued], top edge stained blackish/dark bluish [as issued], 273 pages. Time travel fantasy novel. Bleiler [1978 Checklist page 143 coded Y5 for Into the past]. Tuck [The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy page 319 :A child masquerading as a man spies out the enemy world of adults"]. Reginald 10382. Good copy [spine cocked with the paper label toned, very lightly bumped; but the contents are tight and clean with the hinges not cracked. Lacking the dust jacket See photos

Very Good- with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Edgewear. Spine has tear in covering; 273 pages

"Among the notionable dictes of antique Rome was the fancy that when men heard thunder on the left the gods had somewhat of speciall advertisement to impart" Boards are scuffed, edgeworn, lightly chipped at spine. Paste-on title lable on spine is edgeworn with a small hole in center. Former owner name on fep. Pages are browning lightly. Text is clean & unmarked, binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Solid with some small creases on the covers and two small color chips on the top of the spine.

Copyright 1925, but that's inherited from the Doubleday, Page original. This Grosset & Dunlap reprint, while a handsome book in reflex blue boards with a two-color title page, is probably a year or so later. Unusual in jacket, even in this G&D reprint. (This jacket is "good only," missing the top quarter-inch of its spine, with more chips to the front panel, as well as some diagonal creasing to bottom right corner of said front panel.) The author attended New College, Oxford, for three years on a Rhodes scholarship. In 1917 he got his start as an editor for the Ladies' Home Journal, then moved on to the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger as a reporter and columnist. Morley's first novel, "Parnassus on Wheels," appeared in 1917. The protagonist, traveling bookseller Roger Mifflin, appears again in his second novel, "The Haunted Bookshop" (1919.) In 1920 Morley returned to New York to write a column for the New York Evening Post. He was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A devoted fan of Sherlock Holmes, in 1934 he helped found The Baker Street Irregulars with William Gillette, Vincent Starrett, Alexander Woollcott, and Gene Tunney. He was also one of the first judges for the Book of the Month Club, serving in that position until his health began to fail in the early 1950s. Author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry, Morley is probably best known for his 1939 novel "Kitty Foyle," filmed by RKO in 1940 (Ginger Rogers, Academy Award for "Best Actress.") Here, Morley "looks at maturity, individual growth, and human nature." "Thunder on the Left" was adapted as a play by Jean Ferguson Black in 1934. 273 pp. Reduced from $52.