A Guilty Thing Surprised
by RENDELL, RUTH
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG+. Octavo. Brown cloth in decorative dust jacket. Some edgewear to book and wear to extremities of jacket o/w near fine. Signed boldly by Rendell on the title page.
Synopsis
A Guilty Thing Surprised is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1970, and is the 5th entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29512
- Title
- A Guilty Thing Surprised
- Author
- RENDELL, RUTH
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Glossary
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- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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