The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Leroux, Gaston
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Brentano's, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Yellow buckram, a few spots of soiling, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, lightly foxed at the top edge, foxed on the title page, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. One of the first locked room mystery novels, and the first to feature Leroux's Joseph Rouletabille.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7616
- Title
- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
- Author
- Leroux, Gaston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction, 20th Century Fiction, Crime Fiction, Locked Room
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...