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The Man Who Killed Fortescue
by John Stephen Strange
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928. Very Good. Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 310 pp. Black boards stamped in red.
Lacks dust jacket.
Boards edgeworn with some minor fraying, general scuffing, and fading to spine. Some rippling to rear board. Exposure at second free endpaper gutter, but overall binding holding soundly. Light spotting to endpapers, and a few small holes to margins of final 4 pages (biopredation?) not affecting text, but overall interior unmarked and legible throughout.
Lacks dust jacket.
Boards edgeworn with some minor fraying, general scuffing, and fading to spine. Some rippling to rear board. Exposure at second free endpaper gutter, but overall binding holding soundly. Light spotting to endpapers, and a few small holes to margins of final 4 pages (biopredation?) not affecting text, but overall interior unmarked and legible throughout.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12736
- Title
- The Man Who Killed Fortescue
- Author
- John Stephen Strange
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- First Edition
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