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Just for the Bride
by Clark, Dorothy Park
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co. for the Crime Club, 1950. Naive new bride, hectored by husband, flees New York for her native Tennessee, where she finds more trouble. Clark wrote this & several other mysteries, but is better-remembered for a series of Kentucky novels written with Isabel McMeekin, published under the name Clark McMeekin. Hardcover, as pictured; the stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, pages tanned; jacket shows some edgewear. light chipping, short tears, creases, faded spine. Internally clean, no names or marks. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0692
- Title
- Just for the Bride
- Author
- Clark, Dorothy Park
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co. for the Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Murder Mystery, Crime Fiction
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
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