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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYSTERY AND DETECTION
by STEINBRUNNER, Chris and Otto Penzler
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0710085036
- ISBN 13
- 9780710085030
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1976. FIRST EDITION. British edition printed in the United States. AS NEW, bound in purple cloth and lavender endpapers in black and purple illustrated dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, not clipped. Thin band of fading to endpapers, else FINE. Dust jacket has wear to spine edges and rubbing to front flap. Oversize, quarto/4to, 436pp. Comprehensive, authoritative reference guide covering more than 500 writers, detectives, crooks, plot synopsis, book collecting, and more. Illustrated throughout. A must for the mystery fan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001191
- Title
- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYSTERY AND DETECTION
- Author
- STEINBRUNNER, Chris and Otto Penzler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0710085036
- ISBN 13
- 9780710085030
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Reference, Mystery, Detective Fiction, Scene Of The Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUTHOR S~T~U;
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About the Seller
SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
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Sherman Oaks, California
About SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
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- 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...
- Fine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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