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Murder with Pictures
by Coxe, George Harmon
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1936. Coxe's first mystery novel, introducing Kent Murdock and Jack Fenner. Basis for the 1936 Charles Barton movie starring Lew Ayres and Gail Patrick with bit parts by future familiar TV faces William Hopper and Milburn Stone. Bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear and fraying at the corners and spine ends. Spine a bit darkened and slightly cocked, foxing to the edges of the text block and end papers with a small piece of sticker residue on the front free end paper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D140010
- Title
- Murder with Pictures
- Author
- Coxe, George Harmon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;
Terms of Sale
MLC 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
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
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