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My Story
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. The 1931 1st edition, in its wonderful Joseph Cummings Chase-illustrated dustjacket. Solid and VG (very light sunning along the top-edges, mild offsetting at the front free endpaper, tasteful former owner bookplate to the front pastedown) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the top-edges. Thick octavo, the candid story of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), one of the top-selling authors of detective fiction from the tenns through the 1950s, often called "the American Agatha Christie"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21746
- Title
- My Story
- Author
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- rare autobiography, rare literary autobiographies, rare Mary Roberts Rinehart
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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