The Lady in the Lake a Philip Marlowe Mystery
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Simi Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Stated first edition. Octavo. Lacking dust jacket. Green cloth cover with dark green lettering and decoration, running Borzoi on bottom board, cover with minor rubbing, tanning, and foxing, slight bump on the foredge of the top board, slight loss at corners and spine ends. Pages are lightly tanned, textblock is square and tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0002749631
- Title
- The Lady in the Lake a Philip Marlowe Mystery
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1943-01-01
- Size
- Weight
- 0.80 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
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About the Seller
Schwabe Books
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Simi Valley, California
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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