Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story
by Haycraft, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (No Dust Jacket)
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941. Second printing. Cloth. Very Good (No Dust Jacket). 8vo, 409 pp., illus. Covers darkened and a bit soiled with light scuffing to front cover, extremities lightly bumped, page edges tanned and lightly foxed, some discoloration to endpapers, neat small label on rear pastedown.
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Details
- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17216
- Title
- Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story
- Author
- Haycraft, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (No Dust Jacket)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton-Century
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
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ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...