Crime, Selected Extracts from the All-Time Greats.
by Maxim Jakubowski
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND/No Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0755112733
- ISBN 13
- 9780755112739
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: House Of Stratus.* Binding and cover condition: Colour text-illustrated stiff card covers showing C-R-I-M-E blood spattered & bullet ridden. White & light blue titles to spine & face. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. No visible marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE.* Illustrations: NONE.* Pages: 230 pp. text. viii pp. Advertisement & blank pages at rear.* Description:- An anthology of selected extracts from the all-time greats of crime fiction including:- Desmond Bagley, E.C.Bentley, Henry Cecil, James Hadley Chase, G.K.Chesterton, Freeman Wills Croft, Nicolas Freeling, R. Austin Freeman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cyril Hare, Georgette Heyer, Michael Innes, Sam Llewellyn, Sapper, Edgar Wallace & Dornford Yates. These extracts are here selected to whet the appetite of readers who are less exposed to the classics of crime than they might suppose.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st thus. 1st. Imp. with no visible faults.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10357
- Title
- Crime, Selected Extracts from the All-Time Greats.
- Author
- Maxim Jakubowski
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp?
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0755112733
- ISBN 13
- 9780755112739
- Publisher
- House of Stratus
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 238
- Keywords
- Anthology, Crime, Fiction.
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