The Three R's
by Ganpat
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, generally toned, some rubbing at the edges. Black buckram, lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, red top stain, front hinge a bit loose but not cracked, former owner's blindstamp on the front endpaper. A detective novel centering on the murder of a French Secret Service member and the menacing, seemingly anarchistic villains, who the French authorities suspect. Ganpat is the pseudonym of the English-Indian World War I soldier Martin Louis Alan Gompertz.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2960
- Title
- The Three R's
- Author
- Ganpat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Crime Club / Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1931
Terms of Sale
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All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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Glossary
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.