The Mystery of a Motor Car
by William Le Queux
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Boards in red cloth, with blind stamped Hodder & Stoughton logos on front cover and spine; black lettering on spine. Light wear to extremities; spine a tad faded. Shaken, but intact. Light penciling on front free endpaper, else clean. Pages a bit toned. Frontispiece illustration. Dust jacket spine lacking top inch; edges and corners chipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 256 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. Issued in Hodder and Stoughton's Sevenpenny Library series (no statement of date is given; circa 1915). A scarce jacketed copy. The Mystery of a Motor Car was first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1906.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015156
- Title
- The Mystery of a Motor Car
- Author
- William Le Queux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London New York Toronto
- Date Published
- 1915
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mystery, Sevenpenny Library.
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About the Seller
Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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