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The Mystery of the Locked Room (The Dana Girls Mystery Stories)
by Keene, Carolyn
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1938. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Frederick Warren. 12mo. 218 pages. Hardback in a purple cloth binding with black illustrations. No dust jacket comes with this book. Binding is smudged, and a bit sunned. Back cover has a scuff mark that goes down to board. Spine is sunned, has foxing. Fore-edge of front board has scuffing of cloth. Corners are bumped. Green illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription written on verso of frontispiece. Text is toned, has occasional foxing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051376
- Title
- The Mystery of the Locked Room (The Dana Girls Mystery Stories)
- Author
- Keene, Carolyn
- Illustrator
- Frederick Warren
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1938; Carolyn Keene; Dana Girls Mystery Series; Fiction; Mystery; Children's Literature; Popular Fiction; Series Books.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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