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The Ace of Spades
by Dell Shannon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 19.5 x 13 cm. Octavo. 251 pages. Black cloth in dust jacket. The 2nd Luis Mendoza mystery. First edition with same date on title and copyright page. Some light chipping to the edges of the dust jacket. Jacket is price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52232
- Title
- The Ace of Spades
- Author
- Dell Shannon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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