The shelf · Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
First edition
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
David Willis McCullough (editor)
Pantheon Books, 1984. First edition, first printing.
$20One copy · this copy
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- Book
- Near Fine
- Jacket
- Very Good
- Jacket note
- The dust jacket grades Very Good.
- Our ref
- RCB-c8993c5f50e1
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-c8993c5f50e1 · 8 photographs of this copy
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Copyright page states "First Edition" with no later-printing line
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Compilation Copyright © 1984 by David Willis McCullough
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Pantheon Books (a division of Random House), New York
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ISBN 0-394-54065-4 on copyright page and rear jacket
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Jacket rear flap dated "11/84 Printed in the U.S.A. © 1984 Random House, Inc."
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Front flap carries "FPT" price code (trade issue, not clipped BCE)
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Flaws, each one named
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Gift inscription in ink, "Happy Birthday Mom, Love Cindy June 12, 1985", on front free endpaper
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Chipping and loss to jacket spine head
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Overall toning/yellowing to jacket flaps and rear panel
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Small edge tears/creasing to jacket spine extremities
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This copy
First edition
What a true first shows: Pantheon Books, New York, 1984, cloth in jacket
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.