The Hollow Wall Mystery: a Mystery Story for Girls
by Wirt, Mildred A. (aka Carolyn Keene)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good +
- Seller
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Greensville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1936. Likely First Edition.. Cloth. Good+/Good +. Dust-jacket lists 7 titles including this one, The verso of the title-page lists only 2, including this one. The jacket has 1.5" tear on the front at the spine. the rear of the jacket lists 6 titles in Mildred A. Wirt's Penny Parker series. The book has a Xmas sticker and a stamped local seller's address on the front paste-down. The "This is my Book" ffep is filled in neatly, but the ffep is damaged for 2.5" up the page at the binding. The top and bottom edges have small stains. The rear fixed endpaper is lightly foxed.
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- Bookseller
- Kadriin Blackwell
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11921
- Title
- The Hollow Wall Mystery: a Mystery Story for Girls
- Author
- Wirt, Mildred A. (aka Carolyn Keene)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Likely First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cupples & Leon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
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About the Seller
Kadriin Blackwell
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Greensville, Ontario
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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