Behind That Curtain
by Biggers, Earl Derr
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928. The third Charlie Chan mystery. [Hubin, 33] This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing [dated 1928 but lacking the arrow on the Copyright Page]. Bright yellow cloth binding with titling in purple on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 337 pages. Textblock is very fresh. Rubbing to the top edges and a stain on the rear cover. Lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Behind That Curtain (1928) is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006541
- Title
- Behind That Curtain
- Author
- Biggers, Earl Derr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Mysteries);
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...