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The Red House Mystery
by Milne, A. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar)
- ISBN 10
- 0440173760
- ISBN 13
- 9780440173762
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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About This Item
NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950. Former owner's blind-embossed seal on half title/verso page. Else textblock is very clean and very tight. All page edges are crisp and sound. Light wear to the edges of black paper boards. Unclipped dust jacket, lightly edge worn and faint scuffing. 239pp.. Modern Reprint. Boards. Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Synopsis
The first and only detective novel written by the beloved author of Winnie-the-Pooh, The Red House Mystery was a 'locked room' whodunnit that was immensely popular. Published during the Golden Age of the detective novel, it featured an amateur sleuth setting about to solve a mysterious murder during a party at an English country house.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB13924
- Title
- The Red House Mystery
- Author
- Milne, A. A
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket condition
- Very Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- Modern Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0440173760
- ISBN 13
- 9780440173762
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- mystery, Murder, Fiction, Murder Fiction
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
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About Clausen Books, RMABA
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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... [More]
- crisp
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- reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- jacket
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