THE D.A. HOLDS A CANDLE
by Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$115.44A$92.35
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Uncommon reprint issue in very good+ condition with scarce original jacket. Jacket art is the same as the first trade edition by: Wm Morrow.. Book is tight and clean, free of former owner writing or bookplates, minor age tone and a modest wear to edges. The good, non price clipped (7575) with blurb about this new issue being made from the original plates. Jacket has chips to spine crown area, approx 1/2 inch, shelf rub and small wear to edges. Scarce! (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC). ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abound Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15779
- Title
- THE D.A. HOLDS A CANDLE
- Author
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Abound Book Company
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About the Seller
Abound Book Company
Biblio member since 2005
Overland Park, Kansas
About Abound Book Company
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
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