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Drug on the Market: A Cock Robin Mystery
by BRINTON, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good-/Very Good+. H. Lawrence Hoffman (dust jacket). 12mo. Pp. 192. Gray cloth, titles and series insignia stamped in red on the cover and spine: lower corner creased, edges moderately sunned, leaves crisp and binding tight. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, author portrait on back flap, price $2.75 intact on the front flap upper corner: lower front flap corner clipped, very slight edge-wear. The blurb claims this novel "is anything but a tranquilizer." Brinton was a British political activist who, upon failing in several elections to win a seat in Parliament, turned to astronomy and writing thrillers. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6326
- Title
- Drug on the Market: A Cock Robin Mystery
- Author
- BRINTON, Henry
- Illustrator
- H. Lawrence Hoffman (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
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