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First American edition. Publisher's original olive green cloth with black lettering and silver squares. A very good copy in a fair only dust jacket. Some foxing and discolouration to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers. Black topstain present. A couple of small marks to front board and spine. Clean and unmarked pages. Dust jacket complete and unclipped, but rather worn with some paper loss, especially at head of spine/top left corner of front panel. Tears at head and foot of spine and at flap folds, chipping at fold corners and wrapper edges. A little marked and creased to front panel. *** Patrick Hamilton?s brilliant depiction of London?s underbelly in the last years before the Second World War. A Quinto favourite. Seller Inventory # 001549
Title: Hangover Square. Or the Man With Two Minds. ...
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Publication Date: 1942
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing of the first American edition, 308 pp., Hardcover, previous owner's name to front pastedown else very good in a worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Seller Inventory # ZB1244038
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. New York: Random House, 1942. First U.S. Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 308 pp. Gray cloth stamped in black and silver. Dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure and some fraying; spine toned; faint staining along edges. Binding is sound. Toning to pages but pages otherwise unmarked. Seller Inventory # 11984
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. (no dust jacket) [solid attractive copy, minimal shelfwear, spine cloth a little darkened, uneven darkening to cloth around perimeter of front cover]. Classic psychological suspense novel about a schizophrenic, considerably altered for John Brahm' s 1944 film adaptation with Laird Cregar. Seller Inventory # 24125
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [x], 356pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's cloth, with very slightly faded red lettering to the spine. The backstrip cloth very lightly toned, and with just a trace of further uneven toning and marking to the cloth at the upper and lower boards. A tiny sliver of loss to the fore edge of the first text leaf. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper. The author's most uncommon and highly celebrated novel of alcohol and schizophrenia in pre-WWII London. Seller Inventory # ARC93954
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American edition of Hangover Square or The Man with Two Minds by Patrick Hamilton. (illustrator). First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 308pp. Green cloth, title in black and silver on spine. Top edge dyed black. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning along top edge and endpapers, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, small chipping to spine, corners, and flap folds. Light sunning to spine and a short closed tear to rear panel. (Dark Page I, p. 130). Seller Inventory # 12964
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First edition. Octavo. pp [x], 356, [2] adverts. One of the great British novels of the mid-century.Small (ink?) spot to rear cover. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Titles on spine a bit faded. Very good. No dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # HAMILTON015069
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First U.S. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-307 [308] [309-310: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in green and black, original gray green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and silver, top edge stained black. A dark psychological novel in which the main character exhibits a dual personality. "Grim and powerful, this work is possibly the most valid fictional treatment and psychological study of the criminally insane." - Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 183. Filmed in 1945 with Laird Cregar, George Sanders and Linda Darnell. [Reference: Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 1073. Hubin (1994), p. 368]. A very good copy, darkening to cloth to edges, inked signature to front free end paper, end papers show some age darkening in a very good dust jacket, rubbing and some shelf wear to edges, chip to upper left front corner/spine fold, two nicks to spine panel. (10396). Seller Inventory # 10396
Quantity: 1 available