The Deadly Truth
by McCloy, Helen
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Books, Inc, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Part of the "Midnite Mysteries" series. Original dust jacket has been covered with a clear plastic sleeve. DJ has bumped corner tips and wearing at the top and bottom of spine. Small rips to the bottom of DJ at spine. DJ crimped along edges, has scuffing, and is scraped. Black cloth boards are clean, with bumping to the bottom of the spine. Gilt lettering on spine is faded slightly. Spine is slightly cocked to the right. The binding is sound and in good shape. FFE has remnants of previous owners' initials, which look to have been erased at some point. Text block has some light smudging. The bottom corner tips of pages 69 thru 76 are folded over. Just the very tips of the pages. Leaves of the book have mellowed to a light manila color. 278 pps.
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- Bookseller
- Quirky Used Books & More
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220708008
- Title
- The Deadly Truth
- Author
- McCloy, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Books, Inc
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.81 lbs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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