Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo. ii + 333 pp, previous owner's bookplate affixed to fr pastedown, stated First Edition, a novel in 6 titled Books, 5.4" x 7.75" black cloth boards, gilt fr cover letters VG, gilt spine letters partially rubbed. Binding firm with fr hinge just slightly shaken, pages clean, unmarked, paper VG. Text block top a bit darkened. DJ with chip at top spine 1/2" or so across, general age-darkened DJ spine. Unclipped DJ handles nicely in acetate protector. .

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 008488
Title: This Strange Adventure
Author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1929
Size: Small Octavo
Keywords: Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958)- popular woman mystery writer of early 20th century
Bookseller catalogs: MYSTERY & SCIFI;

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West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.

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New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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....
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Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...