More Spy Stories
by Singer, Kurt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: W. H. Allen. VG. 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First U.K. edition bound in red cloth with gold lettering. Publisher's complimentary copy with slip laid-in (Was taped to the endpaper at on e time but tape has browned & fallen out). Frontis plate, 12mo, 222pp. A collection of Singer's short tales including "Mona Lisa's Last Smil e". A VG copy, binding lightly rubbed at the edges and a little dusty. Frontis plate shaken loose, tape ghosts where publisher's complimenta ry card was taped down else clean and tight inside. Jacket VG with a c ouple of tiny frays and light dusting. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67573
- Title
- More Spy Stories
- Author
- Singer, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- W. H. Allen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- MYSTERY
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dearly Departed Books
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Alliance, Ohio
About Dearly Departed Books
Selling books since 1978. We specialize in SF, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Western & Pulp Fiction. With an inventory of more than 35,000 Hardcover 1st editions, Vintage Paperbacks , Pulp Magazines & general antiquarian books. Store front open by chance or appointment.
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
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- VG
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.