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Root of All Evil
by Dell Shannon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 19.5 x 13 cm. Small octavo. 288 pages. Blue boards in dust jacket. A Luis Mendoza Mystery. First edition with same date on title and copyright page. Price of $3.50 visible on dust jacket. Spine is cocked. Rubbing to the edges of the boards. Light edgewear to the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52231
- Title
- Root of All Evil
- Author
- Dell Shannon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
Midway Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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