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Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
by Dunning, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0684193833
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193830
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing (with full number line beginning with "1") in unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, metallic blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight but has slight lean. Hinges are sound - no cracking. No names, writing or bookplates. Some vertical glue stains to front and rear fixed endpapers where someone attempted to glue down dust jacket flaps. Slight dust-speckling to text block edges. 321 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Dunning's great bibliomystery, the first introducing Cliff Janeway..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028190
- Title
- Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
- Author
- Dunning, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0684193833
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193830
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BIBLIOMYSTERY, MYSTERY, CRIME FICTION, BOOK COLLECTING, BOOKSELLING, JOHN DUNNING, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime; Books on Books/publishing;
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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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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