NY: Modern Library; (1928). Mass Market Paperback. Early printing of Modern Library #144, very good with no dust jacket. Green cloth is sunned on spine, but still legible. Front hinge slightly separated at title page. Owner name, "Lima, Peru", and 1930 date on front endpaper. Binding is Toledano #5 with Kent endpapers. Starrett also wrote an Introduction for this collection which includes Poe, Doyle, Chesterton, and 11 others.

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Bookseller: Tulsa Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 022942
Title: Fourteen Great Detective Stories
Author: Starrett, Vincent (editor)
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library; (1928)
Place of Publication: NY
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Library;

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Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Mass Market: Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...