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Outrageous Fortune
by Wentworth, Patricia
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia; (1933): J.B. Lippincott Co. First Edition. Octavo. The who-done-it mystery of emeralds and the death of Elmer Van Berg. 320pp., bound in yellow cloth lettered in gray-blue, spine lettering gray-blue, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket. There is a damp stain to front and rear bottom corner of jacket which extends to lower corner of boards and endpapers. scratch to front panel, chipping to spine ends, with wear to corners and edges. A good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019384
- Title
- Outrageous Fortune
- Author
- Wentworth, Patricia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott Co
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia; (1933)
- Keywords
- First Edition Dust Jacket 1st Mystery Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
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