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The Black Camel
by Earl Derr Biggers
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1941. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, ca. 1941. Reprint. Octavo. 312 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in blue. Black topstain. Copyright page lists 1929 but likely 1941, given slightly taller format and Madison Square Books logo on back of jacket.
Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges with several closed tears, general creasing and rubbing. Boards lightly worn along edges with some staining to edges and joints. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers with some green scribbling to ffep. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
Fourth installment in the Charlie Chan series.
Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges with several closed tears, general creasing and rubbing. Boards lightly worn along edges with some staining to edges and joints. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers with some green scribbling to ffep. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
Fourth installment in the Charlie Chan series.
Synopsis
This book is a murder mystery set in Honolulu. Shelah Fane, the Hollywood star, has come to Hawaii to finish the filming of her latest movie. When she is stabbed to death in her beach house, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. His movie-struck children are thrilled. Other characters include Shelah's wealthy suitor, her young protegee, a Hollywood fortune-teller, a young man from the Tourist Bureau, a beachcomber and an assortment of actors.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10334
- Title
- The Black Camel
- Author
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...