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KEPT WOMEN CANT QUIT
by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[ERLE STANLEY GARDNER]. A.A. FAIR (PSEUDONYM). KEPT WOMEN CAN'T QUIT. William Morrow & Co., New York, 1960. First Edition, First printing. Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread with pristine red cloth boards, pages are very clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket is unclipped with the original price of $2.95 on the upper first inner flap with a few micro-chips and creases to extremities and spine fold typical of vintage dust jackets of this age, protected in a professional plastic archival collector sleeve. Not a Book Club Edition, not Ex-Library, not remainder marked and not a reprint. A Donald Lam - Bertha Cool mystery with scarce dust jacket in excellent condition. 241 pgs. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-192
- Title
- KEPT WOMEN CANT QUIT
- Author
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Illustrator
- Bill Hughes
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pulp Fiction; Mystery / Crime Detective;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Astro Trader Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Astro Trader Books
Biblio member since 2020
Los Angeles , California
About Astro Trader Books
Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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