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THE OWL IN THE CELLAR
by Scherf, Margaret
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good-Very Good
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1945. First edition. September 6, 1945. Wartime slim volume. Publishers turquoise cloth with black lettering. A very thin ban tanned along bottom of covers, pencil notation at front end paper, else a very good, tight copy. dust jacket is chipped at spine head and foot, spine edge rubbed, a few closed tears with some creasing, but a good-very good copy of a remakably difficult tile to find in any dust jacket. "Humourous overtones and murderous undertones make an excitiong mystery story" -- jacket blurb. 203 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-Very Good. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020998
- Title
- THE OWL IN THE CELLAR
- Author
- Scherf, Margaret
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Crime Club Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York,
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Humorous, Mystery, Crime, New York, Long Island,
- Bookseller catalogs
- NEW YORK; Long Island; Humorous;
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
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Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
In business since 1978 specializing in Mystery, Detective Fiction both in hardcover and collectible paperbacks.
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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