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The Dime Detectives
by Goulart, Ron
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0892961910
- ISBN 13
- 9780892961917
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York / London / Tokyo: The Mysterious Press, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in clean bright unclipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Beige boards with brown cloth spine, yellow lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Black & white illustrations. 8 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. A scholarly overview of crime pulp fiction history, through the eyes of author and pulp magazine historian Ron Goulart..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034281
- Title
- The Dime Detectives
- Author
- Goulart, Ron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0892961910
- ISBN 13
- 9780892961917
- Publisher
- The Mysterious Press
- Place of Publication
- New York / London / Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- DIME DETECTIVE NOVELS, PULP MAGAZINES, MYSTERY FICTION, PRIVATEDETECTIVE RON GOULART, FIRST EDITION, CRIME HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime; Books on Books/publishing;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
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