Drawback to Murder: A Chrsitpher Storm Mystery
by Willetta Ann Barber and R. F. Schabelitz
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scriner's Sons, 1947. Fisrt Edition with "A" on copyright page. First Printing. Good copy with Fair jacket. In beige cloth covers with illustration of investigator and lettering in green on front cover and green lettering on spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked text pages. Shadows of jacket flaps on endpapers. Inscription on ffep. Small piece of lower spine is missing. Moderate shelf wear. Jacket is intact but price clipped. Two inch piece is missing from spine. Chipping along edges. Moderate shelf rubbing 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 #
- 004649
- Title
- Drawback to Murder: A Chrsitpher Storm Mystery
- Author
- Willetta Ann Barber and R. F. Schabelitz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Charles Scriner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- 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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- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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