Smart-Aleck Kill
by Raymond Chandler
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1958. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some tape marks and staining to surfaces. Book has marked forward lean.
Synopsis
Smart-Aleck Kill is a collection of Raymond Chandler's short detective stories, which includes Finger Man; Smart-Aleck Kill; Pick-up on Noon Street; The King is Yellow; Pearls are a Nuisance; Nevada Gas; and Spanish Blood.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1695291024ALK
- Title
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...