London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and tear to price clipped DJ, corners lightly bumped, gutter cracked at half title, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with full number line. Blue cloth boards quarter bound grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, grey place ribbon. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ design uncredited, Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 416 pages; Old Etonian and spy, Andrew Osnard, is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has so far churlishly eluded him. Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of Savile Row, through whose door pass everyone who is anyone in Central America. And Osnard knows more about Pendel than Pendel knows himself... .

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 31264
Title: The Tailor of Panama
Author: Le Carré, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 034068478X
ISBN 13: 9780340684788
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: THRILLERS
Bookseller catalogs: Thrillers;

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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...
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...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Number Line: A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...