NY: Viking Press, [1954]. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Maroon hardcover with yellow illustration of man with flute on front cover, yellow text stamping to spine -- a clean, bright pristine binding, tightly bound, top edge of text block tinted yellow, still bright and unblemished; an unmarked copy with clean/bright paper; minor paper bubble to front paste-down paper. Dust jacket, designed by Bill English shows visible to light edge wear only, spine a bit sunned, very clean and now protected in a clear archival sleeve and now put in shrink wrap to prevent any shelf wear. Outstanding book club edition copy of this novel.

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Seller: North Country Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 18999
Title: THE BLACK MOUNTAIN (A Nero Wolfe Novel)
Author: Rex Stout
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in VG+ dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Viking Press
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: [1954]
Bookseller catalogs: literature;

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General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.

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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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...
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....
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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....