The Queen's Awards: Fifth Series
by Queen, Ellery (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Vg Plus/VG-
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. , 1950. Prize winning detective stories that include John D. Macdonald and John Dickson Carr. Red cloth with black stampings to front board and spine. Book plate on front pastedown and light tape repair to page 47, otherwise nice clean copy. tight and square. Jacket is price clipped and has some tape repair with some edgewear but no real chips. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Vg Plus/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005576
- Title
- The Queen's Awards: Fifth Series
- Author
- Queen, Ellery (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg Plus
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Mystery;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...