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The Shaggy Dog and Other Murders by Brown, Fredric
- Bookseller: Neil Williams, Bookseller
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 24288
- Book condition: NF/VG
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: E P DUTTON
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1963
- Pages: 188 pp.
Description
New York : E P DUTTON , 1963 . First Edition . NF/VG . 8VO . A collection of short stories originally published in the Forties by a noir master. Lightest of wear to book. Priceclipped jacket has three small discolourations on front panel, light edgewear including several small closed tears along top edge.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
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