Designs in Scarlet
by Cooper, Courtney Ryley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1939. An expose blaming corrupt local police for the crimes they permitted and championing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fix the problems. Cooper was a close friend and supporter of J. Edgar Hoover. Second printing. Lightly bumped and rubbed with just a touch of wear at the spine ends, sticker scuff on the spine. Square and solid, end papers and edges of the text block foxed. Inscribed on the front end paper "To my "neighbor" W. Eldridge Smith with a load of good wishes from Courtney Ryley Cooper." Laid in is a note from Cooper, typed and hand signed on his letterhead, to Smith and dated May 31, 1939.. Inscribed By the Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D170012
- Title
- Designs in Scarlet
- Author
- Cooper, Courtney Ryley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- FBI
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
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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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...