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The Vatican Rip
by Gash, Jonathan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0899190804
- ISBN 13
- 9780899190808
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Haven: Ticknor and Fields, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.95), rubbed at the edges, sticker on the back panel. Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, former owner's bookplate on the half-title. The fifth Lovejoy novel that sees him learning Italian to retreive a stolen antique.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5625
- Title
- The Vatican Rip
- Author
- Gash, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0899190804
- ISBN 13
- 9780899190808
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Antiques, English Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Detective Fiction, Books to Film, Suspense, Thriller
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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