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The Old Contemptibles (A Richard Jury Mystery)
de Grimes, Martha
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien/Fair
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1991. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Little, Brown and Company 1991 Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket. In black half cloth, black boards, bright and bold gilt titles to spine, clean and unmarked, lower corners and spine heel bumped. Page edges foxed. Binding tight & solid, square. Internals in fine condition. Jacket illustration by Alexander Farquharson; clean, edgeworn, tears to corners. Protected in archival sleeve. 299 pages. 8vo. 1991, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sinopsis
The rainy day on which they meet sets the tone for Jury’s romance with a mysteriously troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth. The passionate affair comes to a crashing halt when Jane is found dead. As an investigation ensues—with Jury a suspect—he realizes how little he knew about Jane, her teenage son, and her contentious family. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant to pose as a librarian at the Holdsworths’ Lake District home, where the secrets that rise to the surface threaten to pull the clan under.... SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD® AND THE MYSTERY GUILD®
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 029494
- Título
- The Old Contemptibles (A Richard Jury Mystery)
- Autor
- Grimes, Martha
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Editorial
- Little, Brown and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- BRITISH MYSTERY SCOTLAND YARD MELROSE PLANT SERGEANT WIGGINS YORKSHIRE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
