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Love Lies Bleeding
by Edmund Crispin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1971. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1971. Reprinted. 200 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Front endpaper is missing. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.
Synopsis
Seeking refuge from city life, Margrit Lohrer and her husband, Albert Pichler, bought property in the Hudson River Valley. Eventually, the Swiss-born graphic designer and her Austrian-born architect husband transformed their weekend getaway into Morehouse Farm, one of America’s largest breeders of merino sheep, and designed a line of all-natural Merino wool. Visit Morehouse Farm online at morehousefarm.com
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1679984050MHP
- Title
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Author
- Edmund Crispin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1971
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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