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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
by H.C. McNeile
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$23.83NZ$20.26
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About This Item
First American edition, published by Doubleday, 1934. First published in England as 'Knock-Out'in 1933. In this one, Drummond is investigating the case of the murder of a Scotland Yard detective who had been looking for a missing heiress. 310 pages, 5-1/4" X 7-7/8". Black "leatherette' style covered boards, with the title and author within a red field on the spine. Cover boards only show some minor wear at the edges of the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the corners. All lettering on the spine is intact and legible. No dust jacket. Bottom corners are slightly bent inward. Red colored top-stain is a bit faded. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Sewn binding is tight and square. Faded stain mark to the bottom edge of the text block and last flyleaf-back paste-down page - about 1/2" X 3-1/2" - only a stain, the pages are not further damaged. Not a library discard copy. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-10645
- Title
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
- Author
- H.C. McNeile
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
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