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The Book of the Dead
by Elizabeth Daly
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York - Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. First edition with 'FR' symbol on copyright page. Green cloth with black lettering. Soiling on page 103, else interior is clean and unmarked. Pages bright. Dust jacket chipped at head of spine and corner of front panel; mild general soiling to rear panel; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 245 pages. Scarce in jacket. Another case, solved by the bibliophile-detective Henry Gamadge, this time involving a time-worn volume of Shakespeare which appears to be dooming its owners to violent deaths. The author, Elizabeth Daly (1878-1967), was reported to be Agatha Christie's favorite American mystery writer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015541
- Title
- The Book of the Dead
- Author
- Elizabeth Daly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York - Toronto
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mystery, bibliomystery, detective fiction, Henry Gamadge,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Boyd Used & Rare Books
Biblio member since 2013
Portland, Oregon
About Boyd Used & Rare Books
We sell previously owned books, magazines, journals, historic documents and ephemera, specializing in unique and hard-to-find titles.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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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...
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