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THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1949
by Queen, Ellery (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee), (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a very good dust jacket showing rubbing and shelf wear, some chipping with loss to spine ends. (7471)
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket showing rubbing and shelf wear, some chipping with loss to spine ends. (7471). Octavo, Hardcover. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. Includes stories by Fredric Brown, Helen McCloy, Clayton Rawson, Leslie Charteris and many others.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7471
- Title
- THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1949
- Author
- Queen, Ellery (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee), (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a very good dust jacket showing rubbing and shelf wear, some chipping with loss to spine ends. (7471)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Anthology . Mystery
Terms of Sale
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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