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The Room Upstairs
by Monica Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$23.72NZ$20.16
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition, with dust jacket, published by Doubleday, 1966. From the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, this is a psychological suspense story set in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, original price of $4.50 is printed on the top corner of the front flap. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Chip mark to the bottom edge of the jacket, at the left front, about 1/2" wide and 1/4" tall. Some rubbing wear spots to the jacket on the right side edge. Two short closed tear at the top edge of the back panel of the jacket, each about 1/4" long, small rubbing wear chip at the head of the spine, about 1/4" across. Edges of the text block are clean, no former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. Small vintage original bookstore identification sticker on the inside front cover, circular sticker about 1/2" in diameter. High quality blue cloth covered boards with the author name and title imprinted on the spine, just a dot of minor edge wear to the heel of the spine. Nice vintage cover design by Kiyoaki Komoda.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-530
- Title
- The Room Upstairs
- Author
- Monica Dickens
- Illustrator
- Kiyoaki Komoda
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Plymouth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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