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Hand in Glove
by Marsh, Ngaio
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 236 p. 19 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. A bit of fading at both spine ends. Corners still sharp. Lightly dusty on text block top edge. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustwrapper has some wear at the corners and spine ends and the spine is somewhat darkened. The top edges of the flaps are foxed. The rear white panel has some overall light soil. It is not price clipped. A Superintendent Roderick Alleyn detective novel. .
Synopsis
The April Fool's Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period's letter of condolence, sent before the body was found – not to mention the family squabbles. It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn...
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3132
- Title
- Hand in Glove
- Author
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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