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INVITATION TO MURDER
by Shriber, Ione Sandberg
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1943. First edition, 1943 with Farrar's FR colophon at copyright page. Complete text--reduced size in accordance with paper conservation orders of the War Production Board. Bright orange cloth with black lettering at spine. Fine, tight copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.00 price intact. Light wear at edges, shallow loss at head and foot of spine ends and flap corners, very lightly soiled else a near fine copy of a very difficult book to find in complete dust jaclet. Lt. Bill Grady; Cleveland, OH. When Joan Raleigh Stevenson issues invitations for a small dinner party she knows full well that it is not going to be a pleasant affair. What she does not know is that one of the guests is to be murdered and that the hostess is to be the chief suspect.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Miller, I.. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020865
- Title
- INVITATION TO MURDER
- Author
- Shriber, Ione Sandberg
- Illustrator
- Miller, I.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar and Rinehart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Cleveland, Ohio, Historical, First Edition,
- Bookseller catalogs
- OHIO; CLEVELAND;
Terms of Sale
Murder By The Book
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
Biblio member since 2004
Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
In business since 1978 specializing in Mystery, Detective Fiction both in hardcover and collectible paperbacks.
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- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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