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Unfinished Crime (He Never Came Back)
by McCloy, Helen
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1954. A valuable ruby, temporarily "hidden" among cheap jewelry at a dime store, is picked up by a young lady who finds herself thrust into a web or murder and terror. British title "He Never Came Back." Lightlly bumped, binding square and solid. Small damp stain to the upper corner of the text block, end papers foxed, previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, flaps foxed, price clipped. Rear flap creased, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220605
- Title
- Unfinished Crime (He Never Came Back)
- Author
- McCloy, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;
Terms of Sale
MLC Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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