Sinister House
by Hall, Leland
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1919 Houghton Mifflin Company. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. Hardcover has gray paper-covered boards with dark green spine lettering. Front cover has dark green illustration of pine trees and a house on a hill behind the trees. Title and author in gray lettering on green below illustration. NOT ex-library. Binding cracked at page 86 but still strong; webbing showing. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with fraying at tips; board exposed at corners. Spine slightly darkened. Covers have moderate edge wear, surface rubbing and light soiling. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Very light moisture stain in fore edge margin on last half of pages; stain barely visible. Pages otherwise. clean and unmarked. Four black & white illustrations by Haydon Jones; frontispiece has tissue guard. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5700
- Title
- Sinister House
- Author
- Hall, Leland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Title Page
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- 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,...
- Jacket
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fore Edge
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.