THE TWITTERING BIRD MYSTERY
by Bailey, H. C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Garden City, NY:The Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. 1937. 1st American edition, stated. viii+299pp. Hardcover. Red baoards soiled, sunfaded, and shelfworn with wear along edges, spine ends and edge points. Top page edges stained red but soiled and faded. Internally, end pages darkened and age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The rear inside board has some ink scribbling, as well as the outer margins of page 163. The binding is tight with front hinge intact but rear starting before last page. *Published in England under title Clunk's Claimant
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26695
- Title
- THE TWITTERING BIRD MYSTERY
- Author
- Bailey, H. C
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City, NY: Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; MYSTERY;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.