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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

[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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Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.34

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.34

A good plus paperback. Covers creased. Solid binding. First printing, 1940. Pocket book # 51

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.

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

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.

582, very good (FANTASY NOVEL), paperback,

273 p.

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.

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.

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.

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