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SO MANY STEPS TO DEATH
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Dodd Mead & Company, 1955. 1st U.S. Edition, (British title: Destination Unknown, Collins, 1954). Orange cloth, titles in black on spine with Dodd's colophon at spine and front cover. Spine slightly slanted, light edgewear else a very good, solid copy in dust jacket. Jacket has chipping along all edges, 3/4" piece out on bottom of spine, small piece out at spine head, price clipped, front flap has been re-attached to jacket. Scarce. When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die. . . .. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020872
- Title
- SO MANY STEPS TO DEATH
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Morocco,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thriller; Suspense;
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Murder By The Book
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
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Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
In business since 1978 specializing in Mystery, Detective Fiction both in hardcover and collectible paperbacks.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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