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The Case of the Purloined Picture
by Bush, Christopher
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: MacDonald, 1949. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st edition, 1st printing. UK firsts precede US publications. 224pp. Black cloth boards (mottled, spine faded and titles rubbed). Neat lending sheet on front free endpaper. No other library markings. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, with a few small marks on endpapers. Very slightly cocked. In its original dust jacket (a little rubbed on exposed edges and folds, mildly chapped around head of spine, some tape reinforcements on reverse, bright and attractive. All of Bush's 63 novels feature his recurrent characters, Ludovic Travers and Superintendent Wharton. Very hard to find in first edition from this collectible author of golden age crime fiction, even more so with its original dust jacket. Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. 12mo
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001736
- Title
- The Case of the Purloined Picture
- Author
- Bush, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- MacDonald
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ludovic Travers, Superintendent Wharton, vintage crime fiction, vintage crime
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- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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