Lord Peter
by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair/fair
- ISBN 10
- 0060137878
- ISBN 13
- 9780060137878
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Hardcover. fair/fair. Robert Cuevas. Dust jacket has edge wear, is faded on spine with a couple of small chips, and has some discoloration on back; now in new removable protective cover. Yellow cloth covered boards, with red print on spine. Red end papers. Damp stain to rear end pages at top; and damp stain to most pages on upper right corner. Pages are clean and unmarked. Harper & Row / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1972, ISBN: 9780060137878, 487 pages. Jacket design by Robert Cuevas. 8vo (6"" x 8.5"") All the short Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, with an introduction, an essay, and a parody ""Greedy Night."" Contents: Introduction, by James Sandoe. Twelve stories which comprised Lord Peter Views the Body (1928): The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers; The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question; The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will; The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag; The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker; The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention; The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran; The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste; The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head; The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach; The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face; The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba. Four stories from Hangman's Holiday (1933): The Image in the Mirror; The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey; The Queen's Square; The Necklace of Pearls. Two stories from In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939): In the Teeth of the Evidence; Absolutely Elsewhere. Three later stories also collected in Striding Folly (1972): Striding Folly; The Haunted Policeman; Talboys. Coda: Sayers, Lord Peter and God, by Carolyn Heilbrun. Codetta: Greedy Night, A Parody, by E. C. Bentley.
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- Seller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 031522049780060137878ar
- Title
- Lord Peter
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Illustrator
- Robert Cuevas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060137878
- ISBN 13
- 9780060137878
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 487
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Peter Wimsey
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
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