Watson's Choice
by Mitchell, Gladys
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0718125525
- ISBN 13
- 9780718125523
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0718125525 . 239 p. 20 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Virtually no discernible wear to the boards or edges. X marked on front free pastedown endpaper. One leaf has a bottom corner crease. Otherwise, the inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has a tiny tear to the laminate on the foot of the spine. Lightly shelf rubbed. Price clipped. A reprint edition of a Gladys Mitchell crime novel, originally published in 1955. This one features a party at which the attendees dress up as Sherlock Holmes characters. .
Synopsis
GLADYS MITCHELL was an English schoolteacher and the author of over sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Her hobbies included architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend, the detective novelist Helen Simpson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5652
- Title
- Watson's Choice
- Author
- Mitchell, Gladys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0718125525
- ISBN 13
- 9780718125523
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0718125525
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...