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The Secret of Chimneys (The Christie Collection)
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0006174760
- ISBN 13
- 9780006174769
- Seller
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Medford, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 7" tall pocket paperback. Very light bumping along edges and corners of cover. Very light general shelf wear to cover. Front cover does not lay flat against the pages. Pages are tight (a little reading looseness). Pages are clean/unmarked. 266+ pages. Stated "This paperback edition 1994" With number line 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
Synopsis
The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It introduces the characters of, among others, Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
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- Bookseller
- Village Books and Music
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2105023
- Title
- The Secret of Chimneys (The Christie Collection)
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006174760
- ISBN 13
- 9780006174769
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Size
- 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Horror;
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
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