The Detective's Secret or The Widow's Plot.
by Urner (Nathan D.)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
cat40a. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1888. 110pp. plus 10 pages of ads at rear. First edition. Original wrappers, front cover missing, spine covered in heavy brown tape. Old stain to lower corner, the upper back cover and last few leaves are chipped in the margins; a good copy at best. Issued in The Pinkerton Detective Series, Vol. 14, April 1888. Listed in Hubin, who mentions that Urner also wrote for Street & Smith under the pseudonym: Burke Brentford.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55022
- Title
- The Detective's Secret or The Widow's Plot.
- Author
- Urner (Nathan D.)
- Illustrator
- cat40a
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
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- Leaves
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- 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....