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UNQUIET GRAVE
by John Stephen Strange (Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: The Crime Club/Doubleday Doran, 1949. first edition as stated. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. 5 x 8 in. Brown cloth boards. Stated first edition. Signed by Strange with an inscription on the ffep t Stanley Clifford, rare bookseller in Derr Isle ME, dated 1961. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean with minor shelf wear. Binding tight. Endpapers mildly toned, text bright and unmarked. Stanley Clifford's small bookplate on front pastedown. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; not clipped ($2.50) very clean, one small closed tear to spine tail, a larger closed tear to rear that has some extensive creasing around it. Minor toning to edges, spine slightly sunned/toned. In a Mylar wrapper. Scarce title. Fic. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44902
- Title
- UNQUIET GRAVE
- Author
- John Stephen Strange (Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition as stated
- Publisher
- The Crime Club/Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1949
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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.
- 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...
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