Moth by Cain James (83 results)
Published by signet book,, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. first PB. 811, good , been re-glued, might need more hardboiled novel, paperback.
Published by ALFRED A. KNOPF
- Hardcover
Seller: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.Montclair Book Center
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Hardcover. Condition: USED Good.
More imagesPublished by New American Library, New York, 1950
- Softcover
Seller: Matthew's Books, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.Matthew's Books
Contact seller5-star sellermass market paperback. 16mo. 189pp. Signet Book 811. Authorized abridgment. see pictures for synopsis. #03635. Book G: shelf wear and creasing to wraps and spine, slight lean, text clean, binding intact.
Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1948
- Hardcover
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.Lowry's Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCloth Over Board. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fourth Edition. Text is clean, though pages have yellowed around the edges. The cover has minor edge wear. The dust jacket has been, long ago, placed in a protective cover that has been reinforced around the edges with black tape. The adhesive on the tape has now dr…ied, causing the tape to pull away in some places. No markings or other signs of ownership. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by SIGNET, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: forest primeval, cherry tree, PA, U.S.A.forest primeval
Contact seller2-star sellerMass-market paperback. Condition: Good. First edition. SIGNET, 1950. First edition. Good. 1 200 p.
Published by Signet, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller
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Add to basketMass Market Paperback. Condition: near fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. Binding tight.
Published by Signet 811, 1950
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.Books From California
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Add to basketunknown_binding. Condition: Very Good. Shows minor wear and tear, creasing, tanned pages.
- Hardcover
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Visible Voice Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1948 grey cloth boards are soiled. spine is age toned.
Language: English
Published by Knopf, New York, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. With owner's signature, lightly soiled endpapers in a facsimile jacket. A crisp, generally clean copy. Arthur Hawkins (jacket) (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by signet, us, 1950
- Softcover
Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.Happy Heroes
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Add to basketsoftcover. Condition: vg. eighth printing.
Published by Signet Book, Canada, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, CanadaComic World
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 189 pgs. "Was it the memory of a 12-year-old girl he left sobbing in the dark? Was it the too-long nights in hobo jungles? Was it the mother who had deserted him? Everyone has his own answer in this story of a guy who ran away from love." >>Cover creasing;…spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Alan Harmon - Good Girl Art Painted Cover! (illustrator). Book.
Published by Robert Hale, 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Heroes Bookshop, Paris, ON, CanadaHeroes Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First Edition. This copy is still tight but has much fading to the outside of the cover, the dust cover has not been compromised by this though and has edge wear and tears but is encased in a mylar slipcover so it is protected, the pages are clean of marks and quite clean…and bright, no foxing, This British copy states that it was First published in Great Britain, but is undated. It's dustjacke.
Published by Signet Books, NY, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.Valley Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good-. #811, Sept., First Printing. 189pp. Authorized Abridgment. Cover by Alan Harmon. Light wear, slight lean, reading crease. Photos on request. Size: Massmarket.
Published by Knopf, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.zenosbooks
Contact seller4-star sellerhardcover. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1948. Knopf. 1st American Edition. A Few Tape-Repaired Pages Inside, Otherwise Good. No Dustjacket. 377 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery America. DESCRIPTION - In The Moth, Hollywood's hoary old sensation-monger James M. Cain tells the story of a nice boy-nice, that is, by compar…ison with other guys he has written about. Mr. Cain's new hero has a sense of beauty and even a sense of guilt. His missteps, including fraud, adultery, a few burglaries and one stickup, are practically forced upon him by the Great Depression. Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that are the mark of Cain. Hero Jack Dillon-like Author Cain a Baltimore Irishman-tells the story in the first person, a common practice in Cain's novels, which absolves the author from having to write in English. Cain's command of the I'm-telling-you-brother vernacular has been compared with Lardner and Hemingway, but it is neither as inventive as Lardner's nor as selective as Hemingway's. It often sounds like what it often is-something the movies picked up pure and handed back to Americans as if it had been their own. Manhood Regained. Instead of smelling out his mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife whose hair curls to her shoulders, whose eyes are like something out of the sea, and who presents herself in Jack's guest room to show him her extensive tan. There have usually been hidden wells of sentiment in Mr. Cain's characters. Even in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Frank, though handy enough at murder with a wrench, sometimes thought about God while in swimming. The Moth gets its title from the fluttering blue-green Luna moth that Jack Dillon falls in love with as a little boy and ever after remembers at beautiful moments. One of these moments occurs when, at 22, he first takes the hand of the twelve-year-old girl he loves. She loves him, too, and their hearts are faithful through years of separation brought on by evil gossipers and the threat of arrest for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All of Mr. Cain's dream girls are screenable without a change of makeup; so is Jack Dillon. A star halfback and a trained engineer, he has 'taffy' blond hair, dimples in his shoulders, and he displays that blend of brass and mechanical ingenuity that is required of a Cain hero, like an Eagle Scout who never heard of the gentler things a Scout is supposed to be. The best things in the book are like the best things in all Cain's books: clear, fast-moving narrative passages in which Jack Dillon tells you step by step how he bluffed, fought and figured his way out of jams. Murder Paid For. In The Moth, James Cain is occasionally content to lead the reader by the hand rather than to belt him over the kidneys. This makes for a longer novel but not necessarily a better one. Cain's writing is too proficient and disciplined to be classed as pulp, too intelligent to be classed as trash, and some of it certainly ranks with the classics of shock fiction. It is nevertheless essentially near-adolescent. And as adolescence goes, The Moth is a more arrested case than The Postman, in which at least honest murder was done and paid for. - TIME MAGAZINE, Posted Monday, Jul. 26, 1948. inventory #1940 A Few Tape-Repaired Pages Inside, Otherwise Good. No Dustjacket.
More imagesPublished by Signet Book, Canada, 1952
- Softcover
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, CanadaComic World
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition by Publisher. 189 pgs. "Was it the memory of a 12-year-old girl he left sobbing in the dark? Was it the too-long nights in hobo jungles? Was it the mother who had deserted him? Everyone has his own answer in this story of a guy who ran away from love." >>Cover creasing;spine slant;… Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Alan Harmon - Good Girl Art Painted Cover! (illustrator). Book.
Published by Knopf, New York, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition (stated). Hardcover, 373 pp. Very good, tight bexample, some minor spotting to the cloth. In very good or somewhat better Hawkins designed dust jacket with a small arear of wear to the head of the spine.
Published by signet book,, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. first PB. 811, very good , reading creases hardboiled novel, paperback.
Published by Signet / New American Library, New York, 1950
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Owner initials on interior front cover and first page, binding cocked, date stamp on topedge, very good. Signet 811.
More imagesPublished by Knopf, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ally Press Center, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Ally Press Center
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 373 pages. Stated First Edition. Publisher's gray cloth, lettered in green, and yellow topstain; No names or marks. Very Good. Price clipped dust jacket, designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., with an illustration of a luna moth over a teal background to t…he front panel, is Very Good, now in mylar protection. The Moth tells the story of John Dillon, who matures over the course of the novel from a young boy with a beautiful singing voice into a man who has been hardened by the roadblocks he encountered along the way. The book - a social commentary on the Great Depression - was met with somewhat mixed reviews, prompting Cain to remark "a simple tale, told briefly, is what people really like.". Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (illustrator).
Published by Robert Hale, London, 1949, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketFirst Australian edition, orange cloth, 251pp, VG+ (v sl cocked, v sl edge wear, front boards unevenly sunned , v sl foxed prelims & edgesv sl sunned soiled & rubbed) d/w VG- (4in open tear down front flap, v sl creases wear & tears to extrems, v sl chipped spine head & foot, v sl internal foxing, v sl rubbed sunned & soiled).
More imagesPublished by Éditions du Scorpion, 1951
Seller: crealivres, la fontennelle, Francecrealivres
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Add to basketCondition: Fair. Envoi rapide dos recollé couverture défraichie rousseurs bords frottés ex-libris mouillure sur la tranche. in8. 1951. Broché. Fair.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Knopf, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Book Exchange, Amsterdam, NetherlandsThe Book Exchange
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. See photos. Hinges good, binding good. No jacket.
Published by Robert Hale, London, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, AustraliaAdelaide Booksellers
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Add to basketHardback. 1st Edition (Australia). Octavo Size [approx 13x19cm]. Very Good condition in a Near Very Good Dustjacket. Rear hinge started but solid. DJ has tape repair to underside that has bled through - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all p…arcels. 356 pages. The Moth is the story of John Dillon. It begins in the days when he amazed church congregations with the beauty of his boyish soprano. His rapid development into manhood and his subsequent career are striped with violence and passion.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (mystery, crime, fiction).
Published by Knopf, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.Dunaway Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition stated. Corners and spine ends of the binding pushed but not rubbed. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, rubbin at the corners and spine ends with small bits of loss, light rubbing to the front gutter.
Published by Robert Hale
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. no jacket. undated. original red boards. near very fine with no inscriptions. the binding is square and tight. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Alfred A Knopf Inc: A Borzoi Book, N.Y., 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.MURDER BY THE BOOK
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. Gray cover with green lettering and design. cloth shows some very light fading, light wear at edges else near fine in dj, rubbed along spine, rear panel slightly darkened, light wear, price clipped. Jack Dillon has been a golden child since birth. Blessed with b…lond locks, glittering eyes, and a perfect voice, he is the most popular child singer in Baltimore. But when puberty robs him of his voice and the stock market wipes out his family fortune, Jack is forced to rebuild. Over the next fifteen years, Jack will see it all. From Maryland to California and back again, he will become a football star, a soldier, and a tramp. Despite all that life throws at him, he never loses his eye for beauty, or his hunger for a woman he has known since childhood. But to find happiness in the face of the Depression, Jack must learn that no matter how the world has changed him, part of his soul remains as pure as the first note he sang. -- Publisher. Hawkins, Arthur (illustrator). Book.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Virg Viner, Books2222222, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.Virg Viner, Books2222222
Contact seller3-star sellerHard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Printing. Author of Mildred Pierce. Some creasing on inside of dj flap. Slight shelf wear. Very small & light pencil markings on front of dj.
Published by Hale
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. 1st Australian edition. In protective mylar cover. (mystery, crime, fiction).
Published by London; Robert Hale, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rainy Day Books (Australia), The Basin, VIC, AustraliaRainy Day Books (Australia)
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Add to basket1st Australian edition. Good peach cloth hardcover. No dj. Hinges split. 356p.
