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The Panama Plot: Pan-American Adventures of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective
by Arthur B. Reeve
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. First Edition with C-S code on copyright. Frontispiece by Will Foster. Octavo; 326 pp. Black cloth binding with blindstamped illustration of a woman's silhouette. Text in gilt to cover and spine. Spine toned and slightly cocked. Boards rubbed with some scuffs and smudges to surface. Binding cracked between pp. 6-7 with back hinge starting; opens easily between gatherings, but text block still secure. Indentations on front free endpaper that appear to be from notes made in pencil and then erased. A few marginal smudges, else pages clean and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12760
- Title
- The Panama Plot: Pan-American Adventures of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective
- Author
- Arthur B. Reeve
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
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.
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
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