Old Masters, The : Masterpieces of Mystery
by Queen, Ellery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Prescott, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Used/ Mystery. This book is in very good condition, cover is clean, pages are crisp. Attractive red leatherette adorned with bright gilt design and lettering. Red inside covers. Red end papers. Foxing to page edges. Some shelf, edge wear. Pages are clean. Binding is tight. Solid Book. Ellery Queen states "This is a treasurehouse of the best detective-crime-suspense short-shorts, short-stories, novelets, and short novels ever written - The creme du crime of nearly a century and half of the most imaginative storytelling." Writers include in this volume include: Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anna Katharine Green, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrisoni, E.W. Hornung,Jaques Futrelle, Maurice Leblanc, R. Austin Freeman, G.K. Chesterton, Baroness Orczy, A.E.W. Mason, Ernest Bramah, Thomas Burke, J.S. Fletcher, Melville Post,
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- Bookseller
- Lifeways Books & Gifts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- momom
- Title
- Old Masters, The : Masterpieces of Mystery
- Author
- Queen, Ellery
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Davis Publications
- Date Published
- 1978
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.