BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
by Sale, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Corner tips and spine ends a bit soft, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with closed tears and crease to upper front p
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition. Corner tips and spine ends a bit soft, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with closed tears and crease to upper front panel, rubbing to edges, shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends. (22444). Octavo, cloth. Mystery set in Hollywood when the stand in for an actor is murdered while the real star is away. The star assumes the life of the murdered man to solve the crime. Hubin, p. 714.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22444
- Title
- BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
- Author
- Sale, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used - Corner tips and spine ends a bit soft, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with closed tears and crease to upper front p
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Mystery
Terms of Sale
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...