Murder by the Book
by STOUT REX
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Collins Crime Club, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's orange boards with black spine lettering. 188 + 4 pages of adverts at the rear. The book is in VG+ condition with minor foxing to the page block edges. . Contents are complete, clean and tight. No marks or inscriptions. Red boards are exceptionally clean and bright. The price-clipped D/W Dust has just a hint of edge wear but is overall a most attractive VG+ example (and in much brighter condition than usually encountered. A very nice copy. Superb period D/W illustration. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490719726
- Title
- Murder by the Book
- Author
- STOUT REX
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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.
- 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...