From Mystery Cove Book Shop, Hulls Cove, ME, U.S.A. Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 19 July 1998
Gift inscription on front pastedown endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition, 1st printing. The author's fourth mystery and the first with Lt. Ryan. New York setting. Seller Inventory # 168000
Title: The Owl in the Cellar
Publisher: Doubleday, NY
Publication Date: 1945
Binding: hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Rear cover has a scuff to the lower margin. Covers have some very slight edge wear. Pages are lightly browned. ; Armed Services Edition. 1155. "This is a complete book - not a digest.". Seller Inventory # 363273
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably tanned. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Seller Inventory # 1729243919DPB
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First UK Edition. 12mo. Pp. vii, 199. Black cloth, titles in pale blue on the spine: front board creased (slight manufacturing flaw), leaf edges lightly soiled. In the three color illustrated dust jacket with price 7s. 6d. intact on the front flap: head edge chipped, front flap hinge partially split. Though no copyright date is stated, the publisher's advertising lists only Scherf's three earlier mysteries and the book is "produced in complete conformity with the Authorized Economy Standards." Jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve. Seller Inventory # 8526
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Invisible Books, Brighton, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Undated hardcover in unclipped jacket. The book itself has a lightly marked cover, name on front pastedown, lightly marked blurb page, foxed outer edge.The jacket still looks impressive, but is damaged, with loss to the edges & back cover. Seller Inventory # 992
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. First Edition. First edition. September 6, 1945. Wartime slim volume. Publishers turquoise cloth with black lettering. A very thin ban tanned along bottom of covers, pencil notation at front end paper, else a very good, tight copy. dust jacket is chipped at spine head and foot, spine edge rubbed, a few closed tears with some creasing, but a good-very good copy of a remakably difficult tile to find in any dust jacket. "Humourous overtones and murderous undertones make an excitiong mystery story" -- jacket blurb. 203 pages. Book. Seller Inventory # 020998
Quantity: 1 available