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The Crossroads Motel
by MacDonald, John D
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 220 pages. First printing. An Inner Sanctum mystery. The Crossroads was a little town with everything a traveler could want, two restuarants, an acre of cabins, a drive in movie, trucker's garage and more. The Crossroads is a smoothly managed oasis for the hungry tourists, the weary motorist and tired truckers. This booming city was owned and run by the tightly knit family, The Drovek's. A very good copy bound in 1/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, spine lettering white,one corner lightly bumped with some toning to upper and lower edges of boards, pages toned as usual, in unclipped dust jacket withsome spots of rubbing, mostly to front panerl.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031103
- Title
- The Crossroads Motel
- Author
- MacDonald, John D
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Robbery in Fiction; Inter Sanctum Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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