The Groom Lay Dead
by George Harmon Coxe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Dust jacket has large chip to top of spine. Other small tears and chips to extremities. Stain to lower right section of front cover. Jacket browned. Spine slightly cocked. Rubbing to board edges. Corner clipped from front free endpaper. $3.00 stamp to front free endpaper. Large section of rear endpaper cut out and several blank rear pages torn out. Hinge cracked between pages 24 and 25. Pages browned but clean and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1355
- Title
- The Groom Lay Dead
- Author
- George Harmon Coxe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Triangle Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller
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
Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2022
Norwalk, Connecticut
About Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller
A former lawyer and life-long bibliophile and book collector, I am embarking on a new career as a bookseller. I am particularly interested in golden age detective fiction, but have eclectic tastes. I attended YABS in 2021.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...