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The Dutch Shoe Mystery
by QUEEN, Ellery
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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East Woodstock, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, first printing (and first issue dustjacket). Octavo, black cloth with white lettering. The third Queen mystery and the most desirable title. Very Good or Near Fine, bit of shelf wear and signs of use, in Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end, split along front spine edge (now mended with archival tape) and lacking lower 2 1/2 inches of spine material.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41421
- Title
- The Dutch Shoe Mystery
- Author
- QUEEN, Ellery
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Weight
- 0.00
Terms of Sale
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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
Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
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East Woodstock, Connecticut
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About Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
For the past many years this firm has strived to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of mostly fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. Our specialties include Photoplay Editions, Mysteries, Fantasy Literature, Plays, Romances, Westerns, Hollywood Interest, and Business Fiction. We also have a large collection of Cocktail Recipe Books, Children's Literature and 19th Century Literature. We pride ourselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in these fiction genres.
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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