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The Black Tower
by James, P D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0571107311
- ISBN 13
- 9780571107315
- Seller
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SHERINGHAM, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0571107311 . 1st edition hbk in d/w; no names or other handwriting inside book; generally a nice copy in a price clipped d/w that has edgewear - creasing and rubbing, likewise wear to the spine fold, but no substantial loss; vg/g++; ; Adam Dalgleish; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
P. D. JAMES was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council, and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peakirk Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92703
- Title
- The Black Tower
- Author
- James, P D
- Illustrator
- Errol Le Cain (Jacket Design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571107311
- ISBN 13
- 9780571107315
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- 0571107311, Commander Dalgleish
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About the Seller
Peakirk Books
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SHERINGHAM, Norfolk
About Peakirk Books
We are situated in North Norfolk & specialise in childrens books & Crime Fiction. We also carry a large general stock. 25,000+ books.
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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....
- Rubbing
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- Price Clipped
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
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