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The Smiling Corpse
by Bailey, Hilea
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club, 1941. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition. [viii], 274 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with navy spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, offsetting and lean to spine, slight curve to back board, bookplate on paste down. In a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket with light shelf wear, a few small puckers along gutter, pencil checkmark to spine panel, unclipped and unfaded. A mystery set in a funeral home, with a female assistant sleuth helping out her detective father by going undercover as an older lady. Barnett Mystery Women p. 25.
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940748
- Title
- The Smiling Corpse
- Author
- Bailey, Hilea
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1941
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Shelf Wear
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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
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- First Edition
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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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
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