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THE FLORENTINE DAGGER: A NOVEL FOR AMATEUR DETECTIVES..
by Hecht, Ben
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Small bookseller ticket to rear paste down, spine a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy in a fair dust jacket, chipping to edges, cor
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liverwright, [1923]. First edition. Small bookseller ticket to rear paste down, spine a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy in a fair dust jacket, chipping to edges, corners and spine ends, light fade to spine, tape repairs to verso. Uncommon in any dust jacket. (30821). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-12 [13-14] 17-256 [257-258: blank] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], five inserted plates with illustrations by Wallace Smith, original oatmeal buckram cloth, front and spine stamped in black. "... a fine novel by a master writer."- Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 353-54. Filmed in 1935 directed by Robert Florey. Hubin, p. 389.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30821
- Title
- THE FLORENTINE DAGGER: A NOVEL FOR AMATEUR DETECTIVES..
- Author
- Hecht, Ben
- Book Condition
- Used - Small bookseller ticket to rear paste down, spine a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy in a fair dust jacket, chipping to edges, cor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Boni and Liverwright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1923]
- Keywords
- Film Source . Mystery
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
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- 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....
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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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