Surfeit of Lampreys
by Marsh, Ngaio
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The Crime Club. Good with no dust jacket. (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Spine cloth stained and faded. Cloth worn and rubbed at ends of spine. Foxing to page edges. ; 316 + 4 pages advertisements. Red cloth boards. Page dimensions: 182 x 122mm. .
Synopsis
Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The plot concerns the murder of a British peer, a theme to which Marsh would return; the novel was published as Death of a Peer in the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16897
- Title
- Surfeit of Lampreys
- Author
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1941)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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