- Seller Inventory #: 000688
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rinehart & Company
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1948
- Keywords: General Fiction Mystery
New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, 1948 Moderate bleaching/foxing to boards; endpages yellowed; mild foxing throughout; bottom of spine bumped but spine still relatively square and no binding damge; all pages present and intact. Dust jacket has some mild browning to underside; mild wear at edges with some chipping, rubbing and small closed tears at spine ends and corners; watercolor illustration still vibrant; now in protective mylar cover.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good+/Very Good.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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. Also known as the back.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
