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The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur C. Doyle, Peter Haining (ed.)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0890094071
- ISBN 13
- 9780890094075
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
A$12.40A$11.16
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition, with dust jacket, published by Castle Books, 1981. The dust jacket is intact and is nor price clipped. It has been protected by a clear, library quality, removable cover, so there is no edge wear, no rips or tears. 208 pages, sturdy stiff red colored textured boards with sewn binding. Included are the stories, plays and poems written by Doyle that had not been collected in other volumes previously, edited by Peter Haining. . This copy would appear to be an unread, unused copy. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. The binding is tight and square. No edge wear to the boards, no fading or rubbing to the title and author's name imprinted in black on the spine. The boards are flat, the corners are not bumped, no edge wear to the cover boards. We have additional listings on the subject of Sherlock Holmes too! Attached is a photo of the copy in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-405
- Title
- The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Sir Arthur C. Doyle, Peter Haining (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0890094071
- ISBN 13
- 9780890094075
- Publisher
- Castle Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- sherlock holmes, sherlockiana, mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sherlockiana;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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