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Aurelius Smith-Detective
by Scott, R. T. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: "E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc", 1927. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. Blue cloth covers with dulled and rubbed gilt lettering on cover and spine; cover edges are lightly rubbed and front cover has a small bump on right edge and rough-cut right edge; spine panel is rubbed at each end and rear cover is rubbed along spine gutter and corners; book edges have darkened with age; right book edge is rough-cut and top book edge has faded red stain by publisher; white endpaper have tanned more so along gutters and edges; fixed front endpaper has a small blurb from dustjacket pasted on; rear fixed endpaper has a rbber-stamp number near lower edge with a small stain opposite on free rear endpaper; book interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 274 pages
1.02#; P3;
1.02#; P3;
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20030908
- Title
- Aurelius Smith-Detective
- Author
- Scott, R. T. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- "First Edition, First Printing"
- Publisher
- "E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc"
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery & Suspense;
Terms of Sale
Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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About the Seller
Charing Cross Road Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Canton, Georgia
About Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
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