Up For Grabs: A Donald Lam / Bertha Cool Mystery
by FAIR, A.A. (pseud. of Erle Stanley Gardner)
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); orange paper-covered boards, titled in black on the spine; dustjacket by Bill Hughes; 219pp.; spine ends gently nudged, tiny spot to upper edge of textblock, trace of adhesive residue to lower edge of endpapers; Very Good+ to Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50) with red title on spine faded to yellow, else Near Fine.
Cool and Lam #25. "Insurance again, this time a company that wants to set up an ongoing project to expose phony whiplash claims. Big ongoing retainer, big fees for each claim - Bertha's eyes glitter at all the legit dollars up for grabs. Donald is packed off to a dude ranch in Arizona to investigate the plaintiff in the first claim, with stern instructions not to stir this one up. It's not his fault someone's wife ends up dead in the Sierras, or that Sgt. Sellers is so annoyed at his 'amateur' interference that he throws away a key piece of evidence at the scene of the death" (from the publisher). HUBIN, p.139; BARZUN & TAYLOR 804.
Cool and Lam #25. "Insurance again, this time a company that wants to set up an ongoing project to expose phony whiplash claims. Big ongoing retainer, big fees for each claim - Bertha's eyes glitter at all the legit dollars up for grabs. Donald is packed off to a dude ranch in Arizona to investigate the plaintiff in the first claim, with stern instructions not to stir this one up. It's not his fault someone's wife ends up dead in the Sierras, or that Sgt. Sellers is so annoyed at his 'amateur' interference that he throws away a key piece of evidence at the scene of the death" (from the publisher). HUBIN, p.139; BARZUN & TAYLOR 804.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54999
- Title
- Up For Grabs: A Donald Lam / Bertha Cool Mystery
- Author
- FAIR, A.A. (pseud. of Erle Stanley Gardner)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...