DEATH OF A DOLL
by Lawrence, Hilda
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY.: Simon and Schuster. Very Good. 1947. First Edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 1st edition bound in lightly rubbed black cloth with bumped lower corners and fading gilt lettering along the spine. Contents complete in 310 pages which are toned along the edges and margins. The dust jacket is edge worn with a small chip loss at head and tail of the spine along with small stain and slight black residue along the upper edge as a result of a previous jacket cover. --- From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hoffman Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77106
- Title
- DEATH OF A DOLL
- Author
- Lawrence, Hilda
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY.
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Mystery, Detective Fiction
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
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- Spine
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Points of Issue
- Points are physical attributes that are specific to a printing or edition of a book, such as a typo on a specific page that was...
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