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The Case of the Singing Skirt
by GARDNER, Erle Stanley
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1959. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow cloth covered boards titled in black on cover and spine; 250pp; decorative bookplate of bibliophile Adrian Goldstone on front pastedown. Mild residue from old-style dustjacket at board edges and lower endpapers; spine ends lightly pushed; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.95) with tiny nicks to the extremities; mild rubbing to spine ends; Near Fine.
Basis for the 1960 television adaptation starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale and William Hopper. [Season three, episode eighteen, March 1960.] "Ellen Robb came into Perry Mason's office with a gun in her purse. She had been framed, she said, by her gambler employer because she had refused to help fleece a customer." (from the dustjacket); HUBIN, p.163.
Basis for the 1960 television adaptation starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale and William Hopper. [Season three, episode eighteen, March 1960.] "Ellen Robb came into Perry Mason's office with a gun in her purse. She had been framed, she said, by her gambler employer because she had refused to help fleece a customer." (from the dustjacket); HUBIN, p.163.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53531
- Title
- The Case of the Singing Skirt
- Author
- GARDNER, Erle Stanley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 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....
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