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Cain, James M.. LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 218 pages. Pages in good condition, some signs of ageing. Previous owners sticker added to front inside cover. Red cloth cover with some soiling, edges worn. Front border loose. Some wear on spine. No dustjacket. GOOD-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Cain, James. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$37.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Solid copy in its first printing. First Edition stated. Hinge starting at half-title page showing some webbing extending down half the length of book. Crack not evident in remainder of book. No markings, missing first blank endpaper. Red cloth worn at tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Extremities lightly bumped, endpapers lightly browned, last four leaves have jagged tears from roughly opening uncut pages - does not affect text. DJ has tears up to 1/2", chips and wear at extremities, edgewear, lightly soiled.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Coos Bay, OR, U.S.A.
James M. Cain. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition stated, First printing. A Good+ (near Very Good) book, no marks or writing except a name on first end page. Edges and corners a bit worn, and the red color on top page edges a bit faded. Inside, pages are clean with no marks or writing. In a new facsimile dust jacket with $2.00 price.
Seller: Ronz Firsts, Flippin, AR, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Good only with owner's address label on front fly, glue stain on rear fly, tape offsetting on cloth cover edges, spine cocked and corners are bent.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
James M. Cain. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The fourth book by classic mystery writer, James Cain--most noted for The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity--is another fast-paced, breathless story that you cannot put down. With very uncommon first-edition dust jacket with original $2.00 price intact, this copy is flawed by having a stamp from a lending library on the first endpaper. Residue of tape that has been removed is on both the front and back boards and on the very end of the dust jacket flap, front and back; jacket shortened to fit into library plastic cover. Nonetheless, still attractive in a very good copy of the book that is both tight and clean internally.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
James M. Cain. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Aflred A Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: a fine copy in the original red and black cloth, with a fair dj, which has insect bites on rear cover, and is price clipped, but the front and the spine are very good of the dj. priced thus, basis for the 1956 RKO film entitled Slightly Scarlet, starring John Paine, and Rhonda Fleming. one of Howard Hughes last movie right as he was selling the studio. in the nick of time. Great novel of big city corruption.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition stated. "The story is of a man and two women mixed up in some dirty business in a small American city". Very Good, mild cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, mild soiling.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 218 pp. 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slightly shelf-slanted; a few light spots to cloth; small ink name to pastedown; usual browning to preliminaries; in an attractive jacket with a little use to the extremities of the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black, top edge stained red. The novel is ".a brutal picture of a corrupt, crime-ridden town in the manner of Hammett's RED HARVEST and McCoy's NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 144. Filmed in 1956 as Slightly Scarlet, a film noir, directed by Allan Dwan with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 259-260. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 390. Johnson, The Dark Page II, p. 30. Top page edges a bit dusty, a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to the corner tips and spine ends, folds are rubbed, two small closed tears to upper left front panel, closed tear and some creases to upper spine panel, small chip to upper right rear panel near spine, mild age tanning to spine panel. (20431)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 218pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] in red cloth, top edge red. Price-clipped jacket is nearly completely split aling the front fold of the spine; 1" abrasion to jacket front cover, ink number on front flap; spine heavily cocked, else very light wear to boards; light spattering of tiny dampstains to textblock top, ink smear on front fly-leaf, else interior is unmarked. From the jacket: "The story is of a man and two women mixed up in some dirty business in a small American city. You ought to worry about yourself if you don't find it exciting."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in black, top edge stained red. First edition. The novel is "a brutal picture of a corrupt, crime-ridden town in the manner of Hammett's RED HARVEST and McCoy's NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD ." - Pederson (ed), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 144. A 1956 film noir, "Slightly Scarlet," directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl, was based on the novel. Silver and Ward (eds), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 259-60. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 390. Johnson, The Dark Page II, p. 30. Top edge of text block a bit dusty, a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with wear at corner tips and spine ends, rubbing along folds, two short closed tears at upper edge of front panel, closed tear with associated creases at upper spine end, small chip from upper edge of rear panel near spine fold, and mild tanning to spine panel. (#156688)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Cain, James. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth with black lettering, red topstain. Slightly bowed, slightly cocked, glue darkening at pastedowns else clean tight unmarked copy. DJ in mylar has price of $2.00 and is lightly toned at spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 218 pp. with printer's note at end. Red cloth with black lettering, red top stain. Near Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket. Very slight lean to spine. jacket spine panel a bit darkened, light edge wear. A nice copy of the author's fourth novel, which was the basis of the 1956 film noir Slightly Scarlet.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1942.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1942 Knopf STATED FIRST edition of Cain's 4th novel and extremely scarce in this condition. The book is in VG/VG condition. The HB has bright red boards and vivid black lettering with no fading. There is a tiny bit of lean in the spine. Inside there is some age yellowing of the inside boards only with previous owner marks on the ffep. The text is very clean and bright. The DJ is mylar wrapped and price clipped. There is minimal wear with only some rubs along the edges and spine ends. There are various small slits and chips there too. An excellent copy of another Cain classic! **Brenbooks specializes in first edition mysteries and carries many CAIN firsts!
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 218 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's red cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Former owner's ink signature on front free endpaper; endsheets a little darkened at gutters; otherwise a bright near fine copy in a jacket with minor edge wear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 218. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Author's initials in black to front panel. Top edge red. Illustrated dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, production fault to cut of last few leaves at leading edge not affecting text. Top edge red. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a little wear to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket design by Bob Smith. First edition of Cain's sixth novel, filmed by Allan Dwan in 1956 as Slightly Scarlet, with Rhonda Fleming. HUBIN, p. 61
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Cain, James M.. LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [viii],218,[2]pp. Hint of offsetting to pastedowns, else a fresh, Fine copy, with the topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently spine-sunned, with some pinpoint wear to spine ends and corners, small rubbed spot towards mid-spine, and a tiny impression at upper front joint; Very Good+. Cain's fourth novel, a lurid tale "about the seamier side of city politics and involving a politician double-crossed by his chauffeur who is double-crossed by his ex-mistress" (Hoopes, p.315). The novel was unfavorably reviewed and not a commercial success, selling only 7,500 copies by the end of 1942. Basis for Allan Dwan's 1956 film noir Scarlet Street, starring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, and Kent Taylor. The Dark Page, Vol.II, p.30-31.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M[allahan]. (1892-1977). Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$424.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition (so stated) of Cain fifth novel. 8vo: [8],218,[2]pp. Publisher's ruby red cloth, spine and covers stamped in black, top edge stained matching red, other edges rough-trimmed; illustrated dust jacket by Bob Smith, priced $2.00. A superlative example (probably unread), slight fading to top edge, paste-downs stained from binder's glue, else virtually pristine, as is the jacket. A gangster-thriller, tough-guy novel, peopled with hoods, corrupt cops, and crime lords. Written during Cain's Hollywood period (and basis for the film noir "Slightly Scarlet," with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl), it was one of his first commercial misses, although it's been called "perhaps his most underrated work," which "displays Cain's storytelling at its best." (enotes) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black, top edge stained red. The novel is ".a brutal picture of a corrupt, crime-ridden town in the manner of Hammett's RED HARVEST and McCoy's NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 144. Filmed in 1956 as Slightly Scarlet, a film noir, directed by Allan Dwan with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 259-260. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 390. Johnson, The Dark Page II, p. 30. A near fine copy, two small spots to front cover in a very good to near fine dust jacket, light rubbing to corners, spine ends, and folds, some soiling to rear panel. (10202)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. NEW YORK, KNOPF, 1942, 1942.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED) FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE, BRIGHT COPY
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
CAIN, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A bit of darkening to the endpapers from the binder's glue, slightly cocked binding, near fine in a very good, modestly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket with internal tape repairs at the spine ends. Filmed by Allan Dwan in 1956 as *Slightly Scarlet* with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
James M. Cain. Love's Lovely Counterfeit (First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Basis for the 1956 film noir "Slightly Scarlet," directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl. About Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy. The Dark Page II, p. 30.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Cain, James M.. Love's Lovely Counterfeit.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in scarlet cloth stamped in black at spine and on front cover, in a Very Good orange-y-tan, dark brown and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped. SIGNED boldly by Cain in the middle of the front endpaper. Text and endpapers otherwise clean and unmarked. Very slightly cocked. Red topstain with scant light spotting. Jacket is slightly toned along spine panel (as typically), very light edgewear with tiny tear top rear flapfold. 218pp. Scarce signed. Q04678
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.