Ten Days' Wonder
by QUEEN, Ellery (pseud. of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); light grey cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns, small ink owners name to front endpaper, with a faint stain affecting the lower 2.5" of the spine; contents fresh; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently sunned, showing modest wear, a few tiny nicks and tears, and a corresponding faint stain to lower spine and rear panel; Very Good. HUBIN, p.335.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62255
- Title
- Ten Days' Wonder
- Author
- QUEEN, Ellery (pseud. of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...