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POE THE DETECTIVE ~The Curious Circumstances Behind The Mystery of Marie Roget
by WALSH, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1968. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1968. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in black cloth with burnt sienna top edge of text block and endpapers. Uncoated creme colored dust jacket has sketch of Poe on front with copy of 1848 daguerreotype of Poe on back -- minimal rubbing due to no coating, else FINE. Square and tight, UNREAD. Price clipped by publisher. Black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. Selected Bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000897
- Title
- POE THE DETECTIVE ~The Curious Circumstances Behind The Mystery of Marie Roget
- Author
- WALSH, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication
- NJ
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Criticism, Poe, Scene Of The Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUTHOR V~W~X;
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About the Seller
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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