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Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days & Sixty Scenes
by Asimov, Isaac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385113056
- ISBN 13
- 9780385113052
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, Long Island, NY: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0385113056 . Stated First Edition, 1st Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over burgundy boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. . Only the slightest shelf-wear at head and heel and corners, else as new, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, also shows only very minor shelf-wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vii), 230 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27709
- Title
- Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days & Sixty Scenes
- Author
- Asimov, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385113056
- ISBN 13
- 9780385113052
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, Long Island, NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0385113056, Mystery;, Suspense;, ABA;, American Booksellers Association;, Isaac Asimov;, Booksellers;, Book Trade;
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
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