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The Melody of Death
by Wallace, Edgar
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Readers Library Publishing Company, London, 1928. Reprint. Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. gilt titles & extensive gilt border decs. spine & front, August, 1928 reprint of the Readers Library edition, a clean bright copy with the expected light usage wear to extremities, previous owner's signature inside front cover, the spine has split internally at page176 exposing the spine webbing but this fault is not visible to the outer spine & the pages are not loose (though when closed the edges of a few do not lie flush with others), 251 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction. Inventory No: CRM00039. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CRM00039
- Title
- The Melody of Death
- Author
- Wallace, Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Red Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Readers Library Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Crime/Edgar Wallace Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction. Unbranded Wallace, Edgar The Melody of Death
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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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