- Bookseller: John Michael Lang Fine Books
- Seller Inventory #: 5470
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1935.
Book Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover First edition Octavo. 332pp. Binding slightly cocked, with a bit of residue from a removed bookplate on the front paste down endpaper, else a VG+ copy in a somewhat edge worn jacket that has a large chip on the rear panel. This mystery novel was filmed in 1936 by Edwin Marin. Edmund Lowe starred as Philo Vance.
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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 around the binding of a book
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
cocked : Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not align when the book is lying flat. Severity may differ.
endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper).
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
