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The Bishop Murder Case
by S. S. Van Dine
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/fair
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
$19.99$15.99
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Hardcover. Good/fair. Dust jacket in fair condition, with significant chipping at edges and front flap loose; some discoloration on rear; now in new removable protective cover. Red boards with black print on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, age toning. Wartime printing notice on title page, dating the printing to 1943 - 1945. Grosset & Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1929 edition but 1943 - 1945 printing, 347 pages. 12mo (5"" x 7.5"") Originally published by Scribners in 1928, this is a reprint edition. Filmed in 1930 with Basil Rathbone. This is the fourth Philo Vance mystery, preceded by The Greene Murder Case, and followed by The Scarab Murder Case.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10201601bishopmurdercasea
- Title
- The Bishop Murder Case
- Author
- S. S. Van Dine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Pages
- 347
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Philo Vance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
Bujoldfan
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About the Seller
Bujoldfan
Biblio member since 2017
Salem, Oregon
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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