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The Asey Mayo Trio
by Atwood Taylor, Phoebe
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Crime Club by Collins Clear-Type Press, 1946. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 192pp. Small octavo, in publisher's pink boards with black lettering to spine. Mild bumping to head and base of spine; covers slightly bowed inward. Top of text block dust soiled; edges of text block moderately foxed. Previous owner's name to ffep. Dust jacket darkened along spine, slightly rubbed. very good An attractive copy of this installment in the author's Cape Cod mysteries, most set in the 1930s and 1940s. 1946
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140603
- Title
- The Asey Mayo Trio
- Author
- Atwood Taylor, Phoebe
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Crime Club by Collins Clear-Type Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Crime|Crime Club|Mystery
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Aquila Books
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About Aquila Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
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