Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer
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Overview:
- Title: Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer
- Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
- Year: 1938
- Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart
- Price: $1.00
- Pages: 78
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer
- Notes:
- 1st trade edition 21 cm
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides search-only access to one copy, but its catalog record includes a thumbnail title page image that shows the title fashioned with ampersand thus: JOHNNY PYE & THE FOOL-KILLER
- Publication date from contemporary review by Kirkus (brief, positive)
- Price from listing NY Herald Tribune 1938-07-31 pH12 "Books Received"
- Green cloth cover with dustjacket Two dealers describe "Green Cloth boards with black lettering"; "Copyright 1937, 1938. 8vo., 78 pages. Book in green linen w/black stamped title on spine. DJ ...". None of several dealers provides either a book cover or jacket image, nor describes the jacket. --ABEbooks.com 2018-02-21