THE MYSTERY OF CLOOMBER
by A. CONAN DOYLE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good (-) Book/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NEW YORK: THE MERSHON COMPANY Book. Good (-) Book. Hardcover. Not Stated. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Burgundy cover with gilt spine title and blind-stamped floret front border. The inner binding is lightly cracked though secure, and the spine is heavily shifted. And the cover is lightly soil rubbed with a few surface ripple creases to the bottom front corner. Just a light surface corner page crease first several in to good clean pages. Scarce in fair plus condition. About 7-1/2 x 5 with 206 pages. Undated circa 1890. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rose City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111030640
- Title
- THE MYSTERY OF CLOOMBER
- Author
- A. CONAN DOYLE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (-) Book
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Not Stated
- Publisher
- THE MERSHON COMPANY
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
Rose City Books
Delivery is provided by the United States Postal Service (USPS). All orders are packaged with extra care, generally in a new book box with protective plastic & bubble wrap, and Media Mail is the normal shipping service. International shipping may incur additional charges due to rate increases with USPS (depending on the weight of the parcel). And if there is a need for additional shipping fees then I will only charge (request) the precise amount necessary, since I can't absorb those costs. Thank you!
About the Seller
Rose City Books
Biblio member since 2004
Portland, Oregon
About Rose City Books
Rose City Books is an independent, antiquarian bookseller and publisher, located in Portland, Oregon (The City of Roses); specializing in rare and hard-to-find books, magazines, and vintage sheet music. Serving a world of literary enthusiasts from the beautiful, Pacific Northwest.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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,...