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Charade
by Mortimer, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670811866
- ISBN 13
- 9780670811861
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 1987-02-03. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed 1st thus, Viking hardcover reprint edition w/ DJ, 1986. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, binding tight enough to suggest it is unread; spine cocked a bit. DJ is VG, w/ light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips); lightly sunned spine panel. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
Synopsis
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited . He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Colewood Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1020177
- Title
- Charade
- Author
- Mortimer, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670811866
- ISBN 13
- 9780670811861
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987-02-03
- X weight
- 13 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Colewood Books
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San Francisco, California
About Colewood Books
small bookstore with lots of signed first editions
Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
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