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DEATH MEETS THE KING'S MESSENGER
by Collins, Gilbert
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York,: Doubleday Crime Club, 1934. 1st ed. Previous owner's name at fep, else a near fine copy with some minor soiling, a very nice skull embossed front board, with clear red lettering on spine. Dust jacket shows some wear along edges, with minor chipping at corners and spine head, lightly rubbed and soiled but overall very good-near fine copy, not price clipped, $2.00 price is intact. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019797
- Title
- DEATH MEETS THE KING'S MESSENGER
- Author
- Collins, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York,
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, England, France
- Bookseller catalogs
- France;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
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Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
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