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The House of the Three Ganders
by BACHELLER, Irving
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1928]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 315pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, 3-inch tear and creasing to upper cover with old tape-repair to verso, spine faded, textblock about fine. Fine in Good or better dust jacket. Mystery novel based on the true events of "a trial famous in the legal annals of New York state" (from upper jacket flap).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21091
- Title
- The House of the Three Ganders
- Author
- BACHELLER, Irving
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- [1928]
- Keywords
- Trials New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Verso
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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