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Death Came Softly
by Lorac, E.C.R. [pseudonym of Edith Rivett]
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mystery House, 1943. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition. 256 pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with foxing and dust-soiling to edges, contents clean and bright, in the rare pictorial dust jacket, foxed and dust-soiled with a small pencil checkmark on the spine-- hardly any shelf wear and no fading to colors, though. Titles from this publisher are scarce in collectible condition. British mystery writer Edith Rivett wrote a number of golden age crime classics under the male E.C.R. Lorac pseudonym.
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940454
- Title
- Death Came Softly
- Author
- Lorac, E.C.R. [pseudonym of Edith Rivett]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mystery House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- mmm
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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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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