New York: The Crime Club, 1947. Pp. 288, full page plan; black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in red, boards a trifle marked and flecked, fore-corners lightly worn, the spine slightly frayed at head and with faint vertical crease; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly cropped (being one cm. smaller than the boards), the flaps lightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; text block slightly browned, corners of a few leaves faintly creased, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, New York, 1947. First U.S. edition? [see footnote]. Loder p. 232. *The sixth Bony book, set on an inland pastoral station, and involving a migratory rabbit plague. Originally published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, in 1938, followed by a British edition (published by Hamilton) in 1939. This American edition does not contain the endpaper plan included in the Australian and British editions, but has a different version of the plan at page 8, before the first chapter of text. Although it is described by the publishers on the copyright page as the first [American] edition, a Unicorn Mystery Book Club edition also exists, dated New York, 1946.

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Livreiro: Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller (AU)
Estoque do vendedor nº: 132104
Título: THE BONE IS POINTED
Autor: Upfield, Arthur W
Estado do livro: Usado
Quantidade Disponível: 1
Editorial: The Crime Club
Local de publicação: New York
Data de publicação: 1947

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Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Copyright page: The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....

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