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The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stores
by Grafton, Sue, et al
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0881849030
- ISBN 13
- 9780881849035
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Edited by the staff of Mystery Scene; with an introduction by Jon L. Breen. 343 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with black paper over boards; gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "First Annual Edition"--on dust jacket. ISBN 0-88184-903-0. Contains short stories by Clark Howard, Bill Pronzini, Faye Kellerman, Michael Gilbert, Andrew Fachss, Edward D. Hoch, Ruth Rendell, Lynne Barrett, James Kisner, William Bankier, Robert Barnard, Henry Slesar, Joe R. Lansdale, Lawrence Block, Peter Lovesey, Max Allan Collins, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Jan Hess, Charlotte MacLeod, Jeremiah Healy, Sue Grafton, John Lutz, Nancy Pickard, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Book is in Near Fine Condition: edges of book very lightly rubbed. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: edges of dust jacket rubbed; ends of spine chipping. Clean and tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000984
- Title
- The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stores
- Author
- Grafton, Sue, et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0881849030
- ISBN 13
- 9780881849035
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mysteries; Women Writers;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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