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Going Going Gone
by Eliza G.C. Collins
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684186160
- ISBN 13
- 9780684186160
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1st printing of 1st edition; inscribed by author. Brown boards backed with black cloth, gilt titles on spine; red top edge. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; inscribed on title page 'May 18, 1986 | For Kate | Best Wishes and | Happy Third Birthday | and Thanks | Eliza Collins'; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; lightly scuffed; slight age darkening of fold-in flaps at edges. Inscription was to Kate Mattes, owner of a prominent Boston area bookstore. This is a new unread book that has shuffled around the shelves. 8vo, 215 pp. NOTE: not the book pictured as 'stock image'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18913
- Title
- Going Going Gone
- Author
- Eliza G.C. Collins
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684186160
- ISBN 13
- 9780684186160
- Publisher
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE, COLLECTABLE, MURDER, POLICE, CRIME, DETECTIVES, WHODUNIT, WOMEN, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ANTIQUES, ART, AUCTIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Mystery;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Cloth
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