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False Scent
by J.S. Fletcher
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ca. 1927]. Reprint. Octavo (7.5" x 5"); 295pp +1 ads. Illustrated dust jacket (18 ERB titles on verso) over gray cloth with red lettering. Jacket shows a number of shallow chips and tears along edges with some adjacent creasing, along with some smudging to back panel and light scuffs down folds. Boards bumped at top corners and rubbed along bottom. Spine a bit cocked and nudged at head and tail. A few waterspots to fore-edge of textblock, just bleeding into page margins for a few pages at back, else pages clean and unmarked. Binding is secure.
Synopsis
False Scent is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1960. The plot concerns the murder of an aging stage actress, and continues Marsh's fascination with the theater and with acting.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12459
- Title
- False Scent
- Author
- J.S. Fletcher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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