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THE BIGGER THEY COME.
by FAIR, A. A. [Pseud. Erle Stanley Gardner]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Pages toned with some markings throughout, tanning at page edges, a few leaves proud, slight lean and crease at spine, corners r
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York,, 1939. First Edition. Hardback. Lacks Dust Jacket.. Pages toned with some markings throughout, tanning at page edges, a few leaves proud, slight lean and crease at spine, corners rubbed, light edgewear at spine ends, else a fairly clean copy. Good.. 8vo. pp 281. Original publisher's black cloth lettered red at spine and front. First book published as the pseudonym A. A. Fair and the first book in the Bertha Cool and Donald Lam series.
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- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C64098
- Title
- THE BIGGER THEY COME.
- Author
- FAIR, A. A. [Pseud. Erle Stanley Gardner]
- Book Condition
- Used - Pages toned with some markings throughout, tanning at page edges, a few leaves proud, slight lean and crease at spine, corners r
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback. Lacks Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Mystery Crime Modern First Editions
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Leaves
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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....
- 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...
- Fair
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