HALFWAY HOUSE. (Dust jacket title: "Halfway House; The New Ellery Queen Mystery.")
Published by New York: Triangle Books, November 1940.
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 1998
Condition: Used
£ 9.61
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Triangle Books first edition (a reprint of the original 1936 Frederick A. Stokes edition). x, 309 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 12.75cm. Dust jacket with terrifically stylized front panel illustration in shaded of orange and green although the artist is uncredited (same dj illustration as on Stokes edition); dj foxed and soiled; chipping at spine and flap fold ends with other edges nicks and tears plus shallow losses at tops of both flaps; steep angled trimming to rear flap's bottom corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Bluish-gray cloth; jagged .75cm loss at spine head; slender wear along boards' top edges as well as at rear board's upper fore-edge. Some foxing to text block's dark orange-colored edges. Endpapers toned; interior leaves toned at margins. Binding is firm.
Seller Inventory # Z626X-6422
Bibliographic details
- Title
- HALFWAY HOUSE. (Dust jacket title: "Halfway House; The New Ellery Queen Mystery.")
- Author
- Queen, Ellery (collective pseudonym of Daniel Nathan, aka Frederic Dannay, 1905-1982, and Manford Emanuel Lepofsky, aka Manfred Bennington Lee, 1905-1971).
- Publisher
- New York: Triangle Books, November 1940.
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
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David Hallinan, Bookseller
Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 1998
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DAVID HALLINAN, BOOKSELLER - specializing in out-of-print, uncommon, and scarce books in all subjects. Mailing address is PO BOX 463, COLUMBUS, MS 39703. Inventory available for inspection at a local antique mall generally from 10am-5pm Tuesday thru Saturday.
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David Hallinan
David Hallinan, Bookseller
PO Box 463
Columbus, MS 39703
davidhallinan@yahoo.com
(662) 425-1687
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