Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932. First U.S. edition. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends, rubbing and light shelf wear to folds and edges. Bip Pares dust jacket art. (6538). Octavo, cloth. Mystery set in Russia at the time of the revolution.

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Bookseller: John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6538
Title: THE OSTREKOFF JEWELS
Author: Oppenheim, E. Phillips
Book Condition: Used - Very good plus in a very good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends, rubbing and light shelf wear to folds and edges. Bip Pares du
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First U.S. edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1932
Keywords: Mystery

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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...
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...
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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...