Death of a Train
by Crofts, Freeman Wills
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946 First Edition. An Inspector French mystery novel. 12mo. Red cloth stamped in white. Binding is very clean and sharp with beautiful bright white lettering. Text clean and tight. Very good dust jacket has a picture of a railwayman and a steam locomotive, chipped a little at the top and tail of spine and a little wear at corners and edges. Just a little foxing on page foredges. Near Fine/Very Good..
Synopsis
Death of a Train is a crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, published in 1946.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11762
- Title
- Death of a Train
- Author
- Crofts, Freeman Wills
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Mystery, Inspector French
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cultural Connection
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Cape Coral, Florida
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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