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Dancers in Mourning
by Allingham, Margery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 336p. Black cloth with orange spine lettering. Bottom corners and spine ends bumped, bookplate pasted-in to the verso of the intro page facing the half-title. Map endpapers, with a piece of ripped paper glued to the edge of the final blank. Small stain to p. 256, but otherwise the book is clean and unmarked and the binding tight and square. Price intact dust jacket, with light nicking and creasing to the corners and spine ends, with a fade to the spine, a tear to the upper edge of the front flap, and a long tear along the rear spine hinge of the jacket, held by clear tape that runs almost from the top to the bottom. First American edition.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6067
- Title
- Dancers in Mourning
- Author
- Allingham, Margery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Spine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
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- Cloth
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
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