Murder for the Millions
by Owen, Frank (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1946. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Clean hardcover book in unclipped original dust jacket. Bright yellow cloth boards with black and red lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 595 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has edge wear, one 2" closed edge tear at lower spine fold, spine corner chips; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This is the ultimate in murder. With all the cunning and competence that mark them as the greatest crime writers of their generation, Ellery queen, Dashiell Hammett, Damon Runyon, Vincent Starrett, Gelett Burgess, fRancis Wallance and many other top-notchers are presented with their most intricately woven webs of mystery and mayhem..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30640
- Title
- Murder for the Millions
- Author
- Owen, Frank (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Frederick Fell, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY, CRIME FICTION, DETECTIVE STORIES, MURDER MYSTERIES, FIRST EDITION, FRANK OWEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime; Short Stories/Anthologies;
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Stanley, New York
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- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.