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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
by MARK TWAIN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Printing, with the correct date on title page and 'April, 1902' stated on copyright page. Fine. Original de/No Jacket
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing, with the correct date on title page and "April, 1902" stated on copyright page. Fine. Publisher's original deep red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Tight and square binding. The slightest wear to the spine tail. Prior owner's signature on blank page. Internally very clean; covers very clean and bright; almost no wear to covers or boards; lacking the almost unobtainable dust jacket. A beautiful copy. One of the best we've seen of Twain's Sherlock Holmes type mystery!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31582
- Title
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story
- Author
- MARK TWAIN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Printing, with the correct date on title page and 'April, 1902' stated on copyright page. Fine. Original de
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Grinning Cat Books
Fourteen (14) day return guarantee, for any reason, and we pay return shipping costs if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Grinning Cat Books
Biblio member since 2020
Potomac, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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