Raffles and the Key Man
by Perowne, Barry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good+. 1940. Hardcover. "This great adventure story in a great tradition brings back a famous character. Raffles, a second-story burglar of note, a cracksman, a lone wolf always one jump ahead of the police, runs afoul of a master crook known as the 'Key Man. '" Ships same or next business day. Ex-library book with all the usual markings. Number stamp on front free endpaper. Normal edge wear. Small bumps and tears on corners and spine ends. Faded on spine. Bottom half of full title page was cut out. Rough tear on tail edge of front paste-down endpaper. Part of dust jacket is pasted to front endpaper. Book's information written on back paste-down endpaper. Dedication page was ripped out. Light soiling and tanning to edges of pages. Head edge color lightly faded. Text is clean. No dust jacket. Protected in archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages .
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- Seller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 72829
- Title
- Raffles and the Key Man
- Author
- Perowne, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1940
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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...