The Colossus of Arcadia
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Litlle, Brown and Company, 1938. Stated First edition. First Printing. Good copy. Good dust jacket. In green cloth covers with red lettreing on front cover and same on spine. Red stained top edge. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked red endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine. Water stains on front cover. Moderate shelf wear. Jacket is intact with price on upper front flap. Light chipping to ends of spine and some edges. Tape repairs on closed tears. Moderate shelf wear and soiling. In new protective jacket cover. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004639
- Title
- The Colossus of Arcadia
- Author
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Litlle, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction, Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Mystery;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Edges
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- New
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- 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....
- 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...