The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
by Van Dine, S.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First Tower Books Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G; green, beige and orange pictorial spine with beige text; first Tower Books edition, first printing; dust jacket exterior shows fairly modest wear; rear and flaps slightly toned; some chipping to edges, possibly worm hole to rear head edge; mylar wrap to jacket; previous bookshop's sticker to mylar rear; cloth exterior has very mild wear; good binding; text block has slightly age toned; illustrated with fold-out floor plan; pp 328. 1364036. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1364036
- Title
- The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
- Author
- Van Dine, S.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Tower Books Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland and New York
- Date Published
- 1945
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...