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The Way Some People Die
by Macdonald, John Ross (Kenneth Millar)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1951. The third Lew Archer mystery. Ex-lending library with stickers on the jacket spine and front panel, stamps on the front pastedown, front free end paper and lower edge of the text block. Bumped with a bit of wear at the corners and spine ends. Spine cocked, binding solid. Text shows a couple of spots of light soiling from reading wear. Jacket trimmed and crimped in an old black edged protector, spine lightly sunned. Flaps are glued to the boards with corresponding linear scuffs to the end papers from glue residue. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library.
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Details
- Seller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- D130120
- Title
- The Way Some People Die
- Author
- Macdonald, John Ross (Kenneth Millar)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;
Terms of Sale
MLC Books
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
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
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