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The Chuckling Fingers
by Seeley, Mabel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good-
- Seller
-
Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
294 pages. Strange events beset a wealth family at their remote estate on Lake Superior. Blue cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. Some tanning along edges of cover, light shelf wear, a little spotting, former owner's name, "Mrs Alvin Roberts" on front free end paper, interior pages lightly tanned, binding tight.Illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white titles is torn and creased at top edge, sows a little edge wear and chipping, a little tanning, clipped at top and bottom of inside folds.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 02168
- Title
- The Chuckling Fingers
- Author
- Seeley, Mabel
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book League
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8 inches
Terms of Sale
Scraps of American History
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Scraps of American History
Biblio member since 2012
Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
Unique bookstore in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. We specialize in vintage and antiquarian volumes with an emphasis on history, but carry books on many subjects. Currently we are building a catalogue from a large collection. We have been members of Biblio.com since around 2001 under the name Greenberry House. Our descriptions are detailed and careful and we try to note every flaw. ALL of our books are photographed and show you the exact item you will receive. We ship within one business day of receipt of orders and generally do not add shipping charges to the amount on your original invoice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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