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Kidnapped or Secrets of a Great Mystery
by Manly, A. Stewart
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., 1899. First published in 1893 with the title "Secrets of a Dark Plot in New York Society." Although retitled on the title page, the textblock retains the original. Dark green cloth binding, with very decorative titling and illustration in silver. Clean text; 428 pages; decorative endpapers. "Copiously Illustrated by H.S. DeLay." Typically, a poor-quality wood pulp paper stock is heavily toned. [The catalog is not just published books; also offered is the "Audiophone" invented by Richard S. Rhodes.] There is just very light rubbing to the margins. In an archival plastic protector. Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by H.S. DeLay. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006689
- Title
- Kidnapped or Secrets of a Great Mystery
- Author
- Manly, A. Stewart
- Illustrator
- H.S. DeLay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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