My Son, the Murderer
by Quentin, Patrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good+; owners' stamp to endpaper; light spotting to endpaper and edges, else clean and tight in very good but for sunned sp
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. first printing. Hardcover. Very good+; owners' stamp to endpaper; light spotting to endpaper and edges, else clean and tight in very good but for sunned spine, chipped corners dust-jacket. Yellow cloth Octavo, 247 pages 20 cm. Purple illustrated dust jacket in archival mylar wrap. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Jacket housed in archival mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90699
- Title
- My Son, the Murderer
- Author
- Quentin, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good+; owners' stamp to endpaper; light spotting to endpaper and edges, else clean and tight in very good but for sunned sp
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first printing
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
Biblio member since 2005
Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
Over thirty-five years experience in the used, out-of-print and rare book trades. Selling online since 1997. WWW.BIBLIOPE.COM (formerly Calvello Books)
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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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...