A Puzzle for Fools
by Quentin, Patrick (Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Northfield, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936. The first Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-rental library with internal stamps and remnants of a stamp pad on the rear end paper. Lightly bumped and rubbed, print on the spine slightly faded. Looks pretty good on the shelf but the boards and text block are creased from a pressure indent. Front hinge cracked, a bit of pocking to the edges of the text block and the remnants of an Inner Sanctum promotional piece glued to the pastedowns. Good reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- D140058
- Title
- A Puzzle for Fools
- Author
- Quentin, Patrick (Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;
Terms of Sale
MLC Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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