[publisher: Harvard University Press, Massachusetts] Hardcover Ex-Lib
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1944]

NY: Kennikat Press, Date: 1968. reprint. Hardcover. Very good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers clean, minimal wear. top text block edge a bit foxed. BInding tight, text unmarked. Books. Stax. 1968. Kennikat Press [US]

ISBN10: 0674730526, ISBN13: 9780674730526, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1944]
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[publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts] Hardcover First Edition Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1944. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price clipped). Protected by a removable mylar clear-plastic sleeve. Corners are NOT bumped. Hinges are perfect. Handsome bookplate of Harvard University's Lowell House on the pastedown endpaper. Pages are otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1944. First Edition in a second issue dust jacket which can be identified by "Excepts from Reviews" (rather than "The Loeb Classical Library") printed at the top of the jacket's rear inner flap. This is a spellbinding collection of tales of literary detection in the libraries and old bookshops in New York, Florence, Paris, and Dublin. Illustrated with 6 plates including a frontispiece. Bound in the original blue boards with a gilt-stamped red cloth spine and printed paper label on its front cover. From the dust jacket: "With a gay, humorous touch, the author depicts his adventures, relating an infinite variety of curious tales - from forgery to leprosy, from Tarzan to abandoned babies, from tragedy in a Swiss crevasse to murder in California, from an Arabic novel to an Irish yarn. Not only book lovers, but everyone eager for strange information served deftly and with laughter will find diversion in Mr. Altrocchi's sleuthing ". First ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Date: 1944. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (lightly foxed on the rear panel's white parts). NOT price clipped ($3.50). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Corners are NOT bumped. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and crisp. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1944. First Edition. True first printing which is identified by "The Loeb Classical Library" (rather than "Excepts from Reviews") printed at the top of the jacket's rear inner flap. This is a spellbinding collection of tales of literary detection in the libraries and old bookshops in New York, Florence, Paris, and Dublin. Illustrated with 6 plates including a frontispiece. Bound in the original blue boards with a gilt-stamped red cloth spine and printed paper label on its front cover. From the dust jacket: "With a gay, humorous touch, the author depicts his adventures, relating an infinite variety of curious tales - from forgery to leprosy, from Tarzan to abandoned babies, from tragedy in a Swiss crevasse to murder in California, from an Arabic novel to an Irish yarn. Not only book lovers, but everyone eager for strange information served deftly and with laughter will find diversion in Mr. Altrocchi's sleuthing…". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good ...