ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE THREE INVESTIGATORS #20 - THE MYSTERY OF MONSTER MOUNTAIN, written
by M. V. Carey, illustrated by Jack Hearne, published by Random House,
copyright 1973, blue graveyard illustrated endpapers, illustrated front board. RARE
GLOSSY (NOT MATTE) BOARDS - THERE WERE ONLY 8 BOOKS OF THE ORIGINAL 23
BOOKS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY WERE IN MATTE BOARDS THAT WERE LATER PRINTED
IN GLOSSY BOARDS. THIS IS ONE OF THE RARER OF THE 8 "GLOSSY BOARD" BOOKS TO FIND.
Book
has one creased page corner, no foxing to outer page edges (hint of age darkening/dust soiling only), endpapers are clean and free from any tape
residue, no tearing or splitting of page block from internal hinges, no
former
owner markings or used bookseller stamps inside, no wear to
board
edges or to board corners or to spine tip corners, no soiling or
staining to
boards, no color rubbing to boards, no spine sun fading, no bumped
board corners.
Note: This book comes
protected by a removable clear Brodart book cover (cover is not taped to
book - it can be simply slipped off if desired) which prevents further
rubbing/soiling damage to the outer boards. Any white marks/glare lines
in the phot o are simply glare from the flatbed scanner reacting to this
Brodart cover (and are not actual defects with the book).
Overall a N-FINE book of a hardcover glossy board printing Three Investigators book. I have a number of other hardcover and paperback Three Investigator books up for auction on ebay - just click on the 'see other items' link to the right of the picture.
DELIVERY CONFIRMATION IS NOT TRACKING (despite what ebay and paypal want to call it - again they don't control the U.S. post office). Delivery confirmation is merely what it says it is - it confirms delivery to prevent fraudulent chargebacks of claimed unreceived items (which is why I don't charge for delivery confirmation in the shipping costs). Also, since I print shipping labels from home (as opposed to purchasing shipping at the post office), the delivery confirmation number IS NOT SCANNED BY THE POST OFFICE AT THIS END. Therefore, in most cases, the first time that the Post Office will show anything when you check the delivery confirmation number is when the package hits your local post office/sorting center (basically the day before its delivered to you). Occasionally (about 25% of the time) a package will get scanned at the Federal Way, WA transfer station, but in the vast majority of the cases the delivery confirmation won't show anything until basically the day before you get the package.
I DO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS WON (if you would like estimates of what combined shipping costs might be for a certain group of auctions, please e-mail me before the auctions close but a very rough estimate is $.50-$1.00 per additional book for media mail, $1.00-$2.00 per additional book for priority mail, and $6.00-$7.00 per additional book for international mail).
As for returns -All items are used (not new) books and therefore are sold as-is, which is why I try to provide a fairly detailed description of the item itself (i.e. what it is and what it is not) as well its specific condition, noting any significant defects (for collectible items). Book grades are provided in the posting, however book grading standards/categories very widely from seller to seller, so please do not rely solely on the grade that I have given a book or ebay's provided "condition" box description, without considering the specific condition/defects described for that particular book. I do, on occasion, miss a significant defect in an item or simply make a cut/paste error in the description (i.e. an error in the description from using a prior posting as the "shell" for this book's description), and for collectible items, if that happens, on a case-by-case basis I do issue a full refund (including the cost of return shipping) depending upon the collectible significance of the undisclosed defect.