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The Moonstone and The Woman in White (Two Volumes in One, Complete and Unabridged) (Modern Library Giant #G33.1)
por COLLINS, Wilkie
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Livreiro
-
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [c.1954]. Hardcover. Two novels in a single Modern Library reprint volume by the noted English 19th century novelist and playwright, Wilkie Collins. "The Moonstone" has been described as ". . .the first full-length detective novel. It is still the best. . ." by Alexander Woollcott, who has provided a foreword to this edition. "The Woman in White" is a mystery story, narrated from the perspectives of several of its characters. Volume wrapped in jacket with image of the woman in white under a full moon. --- In Toledano spine G5 / blue cloth / gilt titling & ML torchbearer oval on red cover & spine blocks / red topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 370 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (though 1937 date appears in book). ML #G33.1. --- With dampstains to the edges of covers & topstain, else a tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy. Unpriced, unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning to spine, otherwise intact, bright and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, [2], 843 pages .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 88235
- Título
- The Moonstone and The Woman in White (Two Volumes in One, Complete and Unabridged) (Modern Library Giant #G33.1)
- Autor
- COLLINS, Wilkie
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Editorial
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- [c.1954]
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Sobre Bluebird Books
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
