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The Palace Tiger
by Cleverly, Barbara
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1841198129
- ISBN 13
- 9781841198125
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Constable, 2004. First edition. Hardback. As New/Fine. Constable, London, 2004. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and with only very slight shelf wear at head and tail of spine. India 1922. A tiger has turned man-eater and is terrorizing the northern villages of the Princely State of Ranipur. Governor Sir George Jardine dispatches Joe Sandilands, war hero and Scotland yard detective, to join in a hunt for the beast as the guest of the maharajah. The weaponry with which Joe is issued raises his suspicions about the true nature of his trip...
Synopsis
Barbara Cleverly is the author of five novels of historical suspense, including The Damascened Blade , winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award, The Last Kashmiri Rose, Ragtime in Simla, The Palace Tiger, and The Bee’s Kiss . She lives in Cambridge, England where she is now at work on the second Laetitia Talbot mystery, which Delta will publish in 2008.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1302957
- Title
- The Palace Tiger
- Author
- Cleverly, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1841198129
- ISBN 13
- 9781841198125
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction,Barbara Cleverly
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
About Ariadne Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....