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CRIME HOUND
by Scott, Mary Semple
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 1st edition with publishers colophon at copyright page. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Light soiling around edges, slight wrinkle in cloth at front, corner bumped else a near fine, tight copy. Semple's first and only mystery novel. Set in Michigan. Now housed in homemade clear acetate dust wrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020876
- Title
- CRIME HOUND
- Author
- Scott, Mary Semple
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Michigan,
- Bookseller catalogs
- FIRST BOOK; Michigan;
Terms of Sale
Murder By The Book
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
Biblio member since 2004
Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
In business since 1978 specializing in Mystery, Detective Fiction both in hardcover and collectible paperbacks.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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