Unravelled Knots
by Orczy, Baroness [Emmuska]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. [1925]. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing to margins of boards. Some spots of foxing to page edges. A 2" by 1/4" chip to gutter at front hinge, caused by insect damage. No signatures. ; 303 pages. Green-blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 117mm. Crime fiction. Thirteen short stories, including: The Mystery of the Ingres Masterpiece; The Mystery of the Pearl Necklace; The Mystery of the Dog's Tooth Cliff; The Mystery of the White Carnation; A Moorland Tragedy. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11710
- Title
- Unravelled Knots
- Author
- Orczy, Baroness [Emmuska]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1925]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.