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Masterstrokes of Crime Detection
by Wren, Lassiter
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1929. Hardcover. First edition [stated]. Black cloth with red lettering/rules/decoration. 258 pages. Non-fiction accounts although including dialogue in some of various true crimes and their detection. It includes dialogue one the accounts, "The Man Who Murdered Papa Desire", is listed by Ashley and Contento on page 591 of their The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies]. Good only copy with spine worn with shallow chipping to the heel, lower corner bumping, other light general wear/soiling to the cloth, top edge dust-soiled plus other scattered page edge foxing; owner's name stamped in two places at the front of the book else the contents are tight and clean with the hinges not cracked, lacking the jacket. clph
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74270
- Title
- Masterstrokes of Crime Detection
- Author
- Wren, Lassiter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Published for The Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 258
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- TRUE, CRIME, DETECTION, NON-FICTION, MURDER, ROBBERY, YUKON, AUSTRALIA, PAPA
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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North Providence, Rhode Island
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We are biblioboybiblioboy dealers in Books, Stamps, Ephemera, Victorian Trade cards, Magazines, Postcards, Sheet Music, Engravings, and much more. I started out as a book collector and soon progressed to owning a book store with over 80,000 books and more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, postcards, and other items. I exhibited my stock for years at book and paper shows around the eastern United States. As the book and paper business has changed over the years, I have changed the way I do business to evolve with the times. I now offer my items for sale on the web only, through my various listing services and web sites. Being a a collector, as well as a dealer, I understand the importance of condition, as well as rarity of an item, and the desire to own scarce and one of a kind items.
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- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Spine
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