The Eight Crooked Trenches [alt. title Coffin for One]
by Francis Beeding [pseud. John Palmer]
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936. Very Good. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, yellow spine titling; 312pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of illus., captions printed on facing pages. Cloth rubbed at extremities with some exposure at corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound copy.
Beeding's final Colonel Alastair Granby novel, filled with international intrigue and anti-German sentiment. Published in the United States as Coffin for One.
Beeding's final Colonel Alastair Granby novel, filled with international intrigue and anti-German sentiment. Published in the United States as Coffin for One.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8638
- Title
- The Eight Crooked Trenches [alt. title Coffin for One]
- Author
- Francis Beeding [pseud. John Palmer]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
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Washington, District of Columbia
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Leaves
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- Cloth
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