The Cape Cod Mystery
by Taylor, Phoebe Atwood
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 5 x 7 1/2. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. 320 pages. Text is clean, pages are toned with some light staining. Blue cloth board with light green lettering. Cover is well worn on the spine and edges, with some light rubbing. Front hinge starting to loosen, binding intact,
Synopsis
Dale Sanborn has made a lot of enemies in his career as a muckraking author, philanderer and occasional blackmailer. When he vacations at a cabin in Cape Cod, any of his many visitors... an old girlfriend, his fiancee, an outraged husband, a long-lost brother, etc. ... could have killed him, and all of them wanted to. Asey Mayo, the 'Codfish Sherlock' investigates. The published novel of Phoebe Atwood Taylor, and the first of the Asey Mayo series. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- RPL Library Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MA000458
- Title
- The Cape Cod Mystery
- Author
- Taylor, Phoebe Atwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 5 x 7 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature Fiction
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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