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CALL FOR THE SAINT
by Charteris, Leslie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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COSTA MESA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Slightly cocked with minor shelf wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket has minor to moderate chipping to edges and corners with sunfading to spine and a large chip (1 inch by 3/4 inch) also to bottom of spine with a fold/tear across back. 190 pages.. First American Edition.. A Hardbound Book. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
Synopsis
Call for the Saint is a collection of two mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United States in 1948 by The Crime Club, and later the same year in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton. This book continues the adventures of Charteris' creation, Simon Templar, alias The Saint.
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Details
- Bookseller
- HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4918
- Title
- CALL FOR THE SAINT
- Author
- Charteris, Leslie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- MYSTERY ADVENTURE/SPY/ESPIONAGE
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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