Daniel Quayne: A Morality
by J.S. Fletcher
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- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: George H. Doran Company, [n.d. but 1926]. Presumed First American Edition with GHD initials on title page verso, though dust jacket lacks price. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; 304pp. Jacket a bit chipped with a few small closed tears to extremities, bottom half of front flap fold split, small loss mid-front panel affecting image but not text; some brief exposure of boards from shelf wear, else a Very Good copy in Good or better jacket.
Morality tale by the English author of more than 200 detective novels, this rather unfavorably compared to Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by one contemporary reviewer. Date of publication based on American review dates and OCLC no. 5669552.
Morality tale by the English author of more than 200 detective novels, this rather unfavorably compared to Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by one contemporary reviewer. Date of publication based on American review dates and OCLC no. 5669552.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11791
- Title
- Daniel Quayne: A Morality
- Author
- J.S. Fletcher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Publisher's cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...