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A Long Hard Look
by Gair, Malcolm
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Collins for the Crime Club, 1958. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 192pp. In red cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. 12mo. Boards a little rounded at spine tips. Slightly foxed on text block edges and endpaper, previous price in biro on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A Collins Crime Club original.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020782
- Title
- A Long Hard Look
- Author
- Gair, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- Collins for the Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Crime Fiction
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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