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The Secret House of Death
by Ruth Rendell
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Berkeley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. Hard cover. Good/Fair. First edition.
Jacket spine is sunned. Jacket is worn, particularly along edges. Back of jacket is foxed. Jacket has Mylar covering. Spine is cracked but secure. Cover and edges are worn. Text block is foxed. Front and back end papers are foxed. Inside is tanned, but unmarked and readable.
Jacket spine is sunned. Jacket is worn, particularly along edges. Back of jacket is foxed. Jacket has Mylar covering. Spine is cracked but secure. Cover and edges are worn. Text block is foxed. Front and back end papers are foxed. Inside is tanned, but unmarked and readable.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Moe's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94403
- Title
- The Secret House of Death
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- DI
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About the Seller
Moe's Books
Biblio member since 2005
Berkeley, California
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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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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,...
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