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When the Sea Gives Up its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story
by Elizabeth Burgoyne [Mrs. George] Corbett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Tower, London, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo. 227 pp. Binding split in several places. Spine cocked and faded with chip to top. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned and marked. Covers marked and creased. Corners bumped. Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett was an English feminist writer, best known for her novel New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889). Her novel When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (1894) features one of the earliest female detectives in fiction, Annie Cory. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Crime Fiction; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 37264. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37264
- Title
- When the Sea Gives Up its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story
- Author
- Elizabeth Burgoyne [Mrs. George] Corbett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tower
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- BZDB243 fiction, crime Crime Fiction; Fiction. Elizabeth Burgoyne [Mrs. George] Corbett When the Sea Gives Up its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Crime Fiction;
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About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
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- New
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- 12mo
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- 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
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- Jacket
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