The Gun in Daniel Webster's Bust
by Scherf, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1949 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition Stated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Crime Club Selection. Black cloth on boards. First free endpaper missing. No writing or other damage. Appears to be the first of a comic mystery series set in the Lentement Decorating Shop. The owner is Emily, a painter. Henry, her assistant, has sworn off women. Cornelia, "a picturesque failure," and her husband, James, who brushes his teeth thrice a day, round out the cast. A tale of humor and homicide. 218 pp..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dave Shoots, Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012859
- Title
- The Gun in Daniel Webster's Bust
- Author
- Scherf, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Stated
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- NOISBN Mystery. Crime Club.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
Terms of Sale
Dave Shoots, Bookseller
In case of returns, seller will refund purchase price and initial shipping cost provided merchandise is returned in good condition within 14 days of sale. Payment methods accepted: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, PayPal (to daveshoots@nb.aibn.com), cash, cheque or money order. 20% discount to the trade. Books will be shipped as customer prefers upon receipt of purchase price and shipping costs. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR BOOK. THANKS!
About the Seller
Dave Shoots, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2004
Saint John, New Brunswick
About Dave Shoots, Bookseller
We have been booksellers since 2000. We deal in old and rare hardcovers, primarily non-fiction. We have about 10,000 books in four rooms of an 1820's mansion located in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...