THE NAMELESS MAN in Original Dustjacket
by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: D. Appleton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1917. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 321 pages; A bright copy in a nice dustjacket with a bit of wear at corners & light dust soiling to edges, top edge of text block and boardslightly foxed. The real First Edition with the Appleton "1" at end of text, (NOT the inexpensive Burt reprint). An exciting mystery involving high political and diplomatic officials and prominant society people in Washington, DC. A California congressman is shot at a dinner party and Dwight Tilghman is poisoned on an eastbound train. Colonel Calhoun tries to unmask a Japanese plot. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39009
- Title
- THE NAMELESS MAN in Original Dustjacket
- Author
- Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Washington Political Mysteries, Diplomatic Mysteries, Women Mystery Writers
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About the Seller
Antiquarian Book Shop
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Washington, District of Columbia
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At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...