Runaround by Benjamin Appel (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Chambray blue covers are mostly clean, with red text. Top board shows a small bump at foot. Corners are sharp. See photos. Spine has red text and is bright with bumped ends. Binding is strong. End papers/ pastedowns show little sign of age or wear. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have publisher's ink at head, untrimmed fore edges. Color illustrated DJ looks great behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper. Close examination of DJ reveals some edgewear, chipped corners, closed tears, some wear along spine. See photos.** PS2025.1211** 320 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches** First Edition. Publisher's chambray blue boards with red ink title, beneath dust jacket printed in blue and red with white title and cartoon illustrations. A Very Good Plus copy of this stylish edition; text block is tight, ink at head is bright, page layout generous in font, with ornamental device at head of each page. Free of any markings.** Benjamin Appel (1907-1977) was a New York City-born novelist particularly known for his detective and crime fiction. Runaround was one of his early novels; this tale of vote snatching captures the rough and ready tone of city machine politics.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010382"**.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition Stated. Full cloth hardcover binding is clean and solid with light toning to the board edges. The book's interior and text are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket price remains unclipped ($2.50), and the jacket presents well under fresh archival mylar despite chipping to the upper spine end and mild wear along the folds. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in attractive jacket. 320pp.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. darkening to gutters, small closed tear.

First Edition. First edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with crimson lettering. Very Good, offsetting and foxing to cloth and endpapers, faint paperclip impresion to prelims, in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, flaps foxed, unclipped ($2.50). Red, white and blue dust jacket presents very well with no sunning. Hard-boiled/proletarian novelist Benjamin Appel's take on political corruption and machine politics in New York during the Great Depression.