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The Black Box
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
PICTON, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
The Black Box was a serial film, co-written by E. Phillips Oppenheim, an early 20th century author famous for his stories of adventure, intrigue, and mystery, and released in 1915. This book was a tie-in with the film, and includes a number of images from the film. The story tells of Sanford Quest, a renowned criminologist, who is trying to solve a mystery involving a series of strange messages left in a black box, which leads him to confront a master criminal.
This copy is in fair condition, and does not have a dust jacket. The cloth is quite faded on the spine, and worn in a variety of places, and there is some bumping to the corners. One of the pages with images from the film has become detached but is still present. The front hinge is cracked, and there is a lean, and some foxing to the endpapers. The internal pages show some age related discolouration, but the pages are all present and the text is legible. There is an inscription on the front fly leaf reading, "To Ida From Harry Birthday Present Oct. 16 1915."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books & Company
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82
- Title
- The Black Box
- Author
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Pages
- 334
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- vintage, film, silent film
Terms of Sale
Books & Company
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Books & Company
Biblio member since 2023
PICTON, Ontario
About Books & Company
Books & Company is a large, independent bookstore dealing in new books, stationery products, and a hand-picked selection of antiquarian books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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