Lover's Alibi
by Widdemer, Margaret
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Triangle Books, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/good. [4], 281 p.; 29 cm. Blue cloth with maroon spine title and decoration on spine and front cover. Illustrated dust jacket, in mylar cover. Publisher's advertisements on back section of dust jacket and back flap. Small label from McCrory's on front free endpaper. The author, Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978), was an American novelist and poet. She won the Columbia University Prize in 1919 for a collection of poetry. An amusing novel about a young woman whose family lost almost everything in the Depression. Reluctant to marry for security and not love, she starts a business providing alibis for people. Adventures and romance ensue. Book is in Very Good Condition: front cover slightly discolored; pages are browning but clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: lightly soiled and creased; several closed tears from edges of 3 cm. or less; chipping at ends of spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007553
- Title
- Lover's Alibi
- Author
- Widdemer, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Triangle Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Women Writers;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....