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THE TASTE OF ASHES **INSCRIBED COPY**
by Browne, Howard
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery, 1957. First Edition.. Quarter grey buckram with red paper on the boards, spine lettered in black, illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.95 intact. In jacket designed by Robert Shore. Light wear and creasing to jacket, chips along edges; faint soiling to cloth; minor worm damage at margin of text block, not affecting text. Paper age toned. Very good. INSCRIBED "For Charles Brown" and signed by Howard Browne at the 'By the Same Author' page. . Ink ownership marks of previous owner on front free endpaper. Private detective Paul Pine investigates the death of a colleague and is embroiled with the wealthy Delastone family. Very scarce signed.. Inscribed By the Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Shore, Robert. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020572
- Title
- THE TASTE OF ASHES **INSCRIBED COPY**
- Author
- Browne, Howard
- Illustrator
- Shore, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Paul Pine, Private Eye,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Eye; Private Investigator; Inscribed;
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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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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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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