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Dirty Story
by Eric Ambler
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Atheneum, 1967. The dust jacket has been protected by a clear, removable, library quality cover, so there is a minimal amount of wear, it is not price clipped, minimal edge wear at the heel of the spine, a bump mark to the right side at the fore edge, a one inch closed tear at the bottom left on the back of the jacket. Beautiful red and orange cloth covered boards with the author's name and title imprinted on the cover and spine, sewn binding. 269 pages. There is a former owner's name and address ink stamped on the last ffep, about one inch wide and half inch tall. The only other writing is a number written on the first blank flyleaf, six digits in blue ink, about an inch long. Yellow topstain does not appear faded. The text pages are clean, the edges of the text block are clean, the binding is tight and square. This is the sequel to 'The Light of Day', featuring Arthur Abdel Simpson. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory. We have several Eric Ambler novels listed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-408
- Title
- Dirty Story
- Author
- Eric Ambler
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thriller;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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