The Under Dog and Other Stories
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951. Hardcover, orange cloth sans dust-jacket. A Red Badge Detective novel. Ex lending library copy with remnants of dust-jacket flaps pasted inside covers. Inside front cover is stamped with three days price from lending library. Oct. 30. 1951 stamped on lower corner of front free endpaper, and stamp from Carlo's Music Shop [NYC] with lending dates written in pen and pencil on rear endpaper. Spine slightly cocked and last page of text creased. Covers generally bright and hinges strong. Text is clean and there is no name or book-plate present. Overall a good solid copy of this exceedingly scarce Christie title, priced accordingly.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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Details
- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 003397
- Title
- The Under Dog and Other Stories
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Mystery, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....