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The Face in the Night
by Edgar Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
€23.69€17.77
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About This Item
The Face in the Night by Edgar Wallace.
Hardback, 1927, popular edition (early edition, first published 1924), published by John Long, Limited, London, 318 pages.
Sextodecimo/16mo, measures around 7 1/2" by 5 1/8" by 1 1/4". No dust jacket. Red cloth binding, black edging to front board, black lettering and edging to spine. A little discolouration to spine. Marking and scuffing, with signs of rubbing and shelf-wear. Small tears at head and tail of spine, slightly bumped and torn corners. Some slackness to binding, cracking to hinges and other strain. Page edges browned, foxed and scuffed. Some foxing to page surfaces, more pronounced towards endpapers. Previous owner inscription and other pen mark to front free endpaper, pen mark or initials to rear pastedown but otherwise no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-240
- Title
- The Face in the Night
- Author
- Edgar Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Popular Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Long, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Pages
- 318
- Size
- 16mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
GN Books and Prints
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
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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