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DEATH BY SHEER TORTURE
by Barnard, Robert
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good to Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0440119766
- ISBN 13
- 9780440119760
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dell, 1983. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. No. 60 in Dell's "Scene of the Crime" mystery series, this Barnard work features Inspector Perry Trethowan given the task of investigating his father's embarrassing death and trying to determine which of his addled aunts, crackpot cousins or sinister siblings has committed a nearly perfect crime; First Printing of the First Dell Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, age-tanned, with some spine lean; pictorial wrappers show creased lower corner of front cover, minor surface and edgewear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003405
- Title
- DEATH BY SHEER TORTURE
- Author
- Barnard, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, First Edition Thus.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0440119766
- ISBN 13
- 9780440119760
- Publisher
- Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, ENGLAND, POLICE PROCEDURAL, HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Humor; England;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...