The Moonstone
by Collins, Wilke
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London : Oxford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 522 pages. Small book with blue boards, square, tight binding, bright, white pages. Page edges have a former owner's name, personal identification number stamped and a modest date stamped inside fep top left corner. Dust jacket is price clipped and has a bit of red ink on the edge, a spillover from the name stamped on the page edges, minor creasing on back dj. The moonstone itself, an enormous diamond originally stolen from the image of the Indian moon god at the seige of Seringapatam, brings misfortune to its successive owners. It is inherited by Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, but disappears the same night, and the story is occupied with the contest of cunning for its possession between its rightful owners, and the Englishman, Godfrey Ablewhite. The is World's Classics #316. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024931
- Title
- The Moonstone
- Author
- Collins, Wilke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Classic Literature Mystery Gothic World's Classics Library
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dons Book Store
Biblio member since 2005
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Dons Book Store
We are a family owned and operated bookstore in same location for 52 years. We have built our business on integrity, professional and personal service. General line of new and used paperback and hardback books, comics and graphic novels.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...