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The Screaming Mimi
by Frederic Brown
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: E. P Dutton & Company, 1949. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book Club Edition, A Dutton Guilt Edged Mystery, Book is near Fine, 248 Pages, previous owner name and address written on front paste down (hidden under jacket flap), no other bookplate or writing, tight and square with sharp corners, bright and uniform blue top stain, yellow hard bound with blue title block to spine. Jacket is Very Good Plus, bit of corner wear, chipping to head and heel and light loss on spine not affecting text, price clipped, very nice front panel illustration, shows nicely in a new mylar sleeve. Ultra clean and most presentable. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002522
- Title
- The Screaming Mimi
- Author
- Frederic Brown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- E. P Dutton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Mystery, American Mystery
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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