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The Master of the Macabre
by Thorndike, Russell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Rich & Cowan, 1946. Taylor Kent leaves London, believing his home is haunted, crashes his car and is forced to take refuge in an old monastery inhabited by a man known as The Master of the Macabre, who regales him with tales of horror. Oh, and the monastery is full of ghosts. Bumped with light rubbing at the edges and a pressure crease to the rear board. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, tape repair to the spine ends. Price clipped, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230758
- Title
- The Master of the Macabre
- Author
- Thorndike, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rich & Cowan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;
Terms of Sale
MLC Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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