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Detection Unlimited
by HEYER Georgette
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1953 (500 gram rate) black cloth slightly mottled, single pen name to end paper, text block tight and clean with just some dust discolouration to top edge, DW is unclipped or trimmed and generally bright and VG except for some chipping to the spine, with 20mm missing from the tail and a few closed tears across the spine, very nice copy of one of Heyer's crime novels. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
Georgette Heyer who wrote over fifty novels died in 1974.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011068
- Title
- Detection Unlimited
- Author
- HEYER Georgette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- crime thriller murder mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIME & THRILLER Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Fortuna Books
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Books received which are not as described may be returned for a full refund of the book cost, less shipping, after prior arrangement with the seller. Please make no returns until we have agreed to the terms of the return.About the Seller
Fortuna Books
Biblio member since 2006
Christchurch, Canterbury
About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
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