Skytip
by REED, Eliot [pseud. of Eric Ambler and Charles Rodda)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1950. Reprint. Octavo (20.25cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket printed in black and purple; 222pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few shallow losses, including one measuring approximately one inch at top edge of upper panel, purple spine lettering rather faded, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. First novel to be published by the Ambler and Rodda pseudonym of Eliot Reed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24321
- Title
- Skytip
- Author
- REED, Eliot [pseud. of Eric Ambler and Charles Rodda)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Crime Club / Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Great Britain; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...