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A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres Revised and Enlarged Edition
by Barzun, Jacques; Wendell Hertig Taylor
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060157968
- ISBN 13
- 9780060157968
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1989]. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.5." First Edition. Inscribed by Barzun on half-title. Black cloth with gilt lettering in yellow illustrated dust jacket. Heavy sunning to spine of dj, some chipping. Light rubbing to binding edges. Previous owner's markings on ffep. Spine cracked between frontispiece and title page. Else, interiors clean and sound. Good. ISBN: 0060157968 . Good. Hardcover .
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- Bookseller
- Brattle Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32909
- Title
- A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres Revised and Enlarged Edition
- Author
- Barzun, Jacques; Wendell Hertig Taylor
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060157968
- ISBN 13
- 9780060157968
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers [1989]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Hardcover
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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