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The Saint In New York
by Leslie Charteris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$25.53NZ$21.70
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About This Item
Hardcover first American edition, published by The Sun Dial Press, a subsidiary of Doublday, 1935. No dust jacket. the 15th book in the series, here Simon Templar is involved with uncovering who the corrupt police official is who has been working with the mod boss known as 'The Big Fellow'. 302 pages, 5-3/8" X 7-3/4", rough edges to the fore edge side of the text block, red colored top-stain. This is not a library discard. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Top edge of the text block has a few minor dots of fading, bottom edge has some dots of tanning. Front cover board appears to have some residue from where the dust jacket had been glued to the cover, leaving some faint marks to the left side of the front cover board, a few light scuff marks. Red-orange art-deco style design on the spine is intact, and the lettering of the title and author name on the spine is entirely legible. Very slight spine lean, the binding is tight. Very light wear to the tips of the corners of the cover boards. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
The Saint in New York is the title of a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris that was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in 1935. It was published the same year in the United States by Doubleday. An abbreviated version of the novel was previously published in a 1934 issue of The American Magazine. This was the 15th book chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar, alias The Saint, an anti-hero character patterned somewhat after Robin Hood. According to the website saint.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-05318
- Title
- The Saint In New York
- Author
- Leslie Charteris
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992-08
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
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Glossary
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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