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THE SHOPLIFTER.
by Smithies, Richard H. R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in black boards with a red cloth spine in a fair only dust jacket with several closed tears, and original price of 4.9/black boards with a red cloth spine in a fair only
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Horizon Press,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black boards with a red cloth spine in a fair only dust jacket with several closed tears, and original price of 4.95.. First printing. The author's third book, a comic novel of suspense, set in the antique businesses of a Connecticut suburb where shoplifting a few choice items has become the rage. 254 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88538
- Title
- THE SHOPLIFTER.
- Author
- Smithies, Richard H. R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in black boards with a red cloth spine in a fair only dust jacket with several closed tears, and original price of 4.9
- Jacket Condition
- black boards with a red cloth spine in a fair only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horizon Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1968)
- Keywords
- antique business, connecticut setting, humor,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Bookfever.com, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Ione, California
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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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