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The Girl from Scotland Yard
by Wallace, Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair-Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. Reprint . Hardcover. Fair-Good/No Jacket. Crime novel orig. published in London in 1925/26; this is a 1929 American reprint from Doubleday, Doran, part of its Weirdmoor Collection. With pink cloth-covered boards decorated with black silhouettes & lettering, it is in only Fair-Good condition: binding strong, but slightly shaken, edgewear & rubbing to extremities, hinges secure. Pages show moderate tanning but no markings save for former owner's name in neat pen inside front cover. Foxing to top outside page edges, light soil to others & spine cloth soiled & faded. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022127
- Title
- The Girl from Scotland Yard
- Author
- Wallace, Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair-Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- DOUBLEDAY DORAN WEIRDMOOR COLLECTION REPRINT HARDCOVER CRIME MURDER MYSTERY SCOTLAND YARD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery-Thriller-Suspense-Horror;
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Gargoyle Books
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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- New
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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