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Death's Jest-Book (SIGNED Copy)
by Hill, Reginald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0007123396
- ISBN 13
- 9780007123391
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins Publishers. Near Fine in As New dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0007123396 . FIRST EDITION, FIRST Impression with the correct Printer's Key - 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. FINE, crisp, sharp-cornered black boards with bright silver-gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's AS New pictorial dustjacket - now in a new fine protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover. The dustjacket is not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR under his printed name on the Title page. The paper is UNIFORMLY cream/browning as usual, due to the acid toning (VERY light tanning here) with this type of paper over time, but the endpapers were printed on a different quality paper and are nice & clean. The endpapers are printed on a different paper are white and as new. The page fore-edges are very clean, but the top edge is beginning to brown more deeply with age and the bottom edge the same. Apart from this the book is As NEW with NO other Inscriptions or Marks. "Ex-convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe. DS Edgar Wield, intervening in a suspected kidnapping, takes a vulnerable rentboy under his wing, and young DC Bowler is looking forward to a weekend away with his girlfriend... Detective Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel, lording it over his team, is famed for his omniscience. But even he is unable to foresee the disaster towards which they are all tumbling…". Apart from the almost inevitable light tanning to the top and bottom of the page edges only, this is an EXCELLENT unmarked AS New, Signed, First Edition, First Impression. See Images. ; Large, Thick, 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Reginald Hill has been widely published in England, Canada, and the United States, and has been justly compared with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. He received Britain’s most esteemed mystery award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger, as well as the Golden Dagger for his Dalziel-Pascoe series. Reginald Hill lives with his wife in Cumbria, England.
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114205
- Title
- Death's Jest-Book (SIGNED Copy)
- Author
- Hill, Reginald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Near Fine in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007123396
- ISBN 13
- 9780007123391
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0007123396, Death's Jest-book (SIGNED Copy) By Reginald Hill, Detective Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel; Fat Andy; DCI Peter Pascoe. , DS Edgar Wield, Franny Roote; DC Bowler
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime Fiction;
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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