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The House of the Seven Flies
by Canning, Victor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York : M. S. Mill / William Morrow Co, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Toast brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 220 pages. Amazing illustrated dust jacket has flies clinging to the word "Flies" - is clean, with very small chips at top spine edge, a few short closed edge tears, not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap); enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033964
- Title
- The House of the Seven Flies
- Author
- Canning, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- M. S. Mill / William Morrow Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- mystery, crime fiction, mystery novel, Victor Canning, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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