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The Methods of Dr. Scarlett
by Laing, Alexander
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Reprint.. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. Reprint. Very Good+/Very Good. Grosset and Dunlap edition (issued using original Farrar & Rinehart plates) in attractive illustrated jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. "Copyright 1937" with publisher's FR device printed on copyright page, but this is a re-issue by Grosset & Dunlap. 436 pages. Clean illustrated jacket has shallow edge chipping at top and bottom spine edges, slight fading to spine, small chip (size of very small bean) at rear panel. A few additional small edge rubs. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Aboard the Bakong Ayer as she is clearing from Shanghai for England, Dr. Scarlett finds himself in charge, medically at least, of a group of people whose passions and emotions are as full of potential lightning as a thunderhead..
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021343
- Title
- The Methods of Dr. Scarlett
- Author
- Laing, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, CRIME FICTION, DR. SCARLETT, ALEXANDER LAING, OLD DUST JACKETS 1930S, VINTAGE MYSTERY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime;
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
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