QUEEN'S QUORUM
by Queen, Ellery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed by the 106 Most Important Books Published in thie Field since 1845. 132 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with black and white plate. Pages clean, good condition. Endpapers lightly foxed, back endpapers more than front. Brown cloth, beige label with red title on spine. Edges worn and lightly bumped. Beige dust jacket with red titles. DJ not price clipped. Spine and edges lightly worn and soiled. VG/GOOD+. 1st US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028528
- Title
- QUEEN'S QUORUM
- Author
- Queen, Ellery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston MA
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- detective Stories, Crime Stories,
Terms of Sale
J. Wyatt Books
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About the Seller
J. Wyatt Books
Biblio member since 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
About J. Wyatt Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...