Kate Plus Ten
by Edgar Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
$247.03$222.32
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co, c1927 . Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A bright edition of Edgar Wallace's popular crime novel about teenage master criminal Kate Wasthanger, in a scarce illustrated dust wrapper. A scarce 1920s edition of Edgar Wallace's 1917 crime novel, in the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped.Adapted twice into films, in 1938 and 1966, Wallace's novel follows the attempts to capture eighteen-year-old criminal mastermind Kate Wasthanger, a colonel's niece and the strategist behind several increasingly successful swindles. Undated; dated from publisher's list of Wallace titles to verso of half title. The latest work appearing to this list is the 1927 novel 'The Man Who Was Nobody'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with chipping to back strip head and tail, and small closed tears to front wrap. Small loss to tail of rear wrap. Light offsetting to dust wrapper reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 841F72
- Title
- Kate Plus Ten
- Author
- Edgar Wallace
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c1927
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Kate Plus Ten The Trygon Factor The Four Just Men The Trygon Factor
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Half Title
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- Fine
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