THE BLOODY WOOD.
by Innes, Michael (pseudonym of J.I. M. Stewart)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine example of Gollancz's distinctive yellow dust jacket/red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine example of Gollancz's distinctive yellow
- ISBN 10
- 0575002190
- ISBN 13
- 9780575002197
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
London:: Gollancz,, 1966.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine example of Gollancz's distinctive yellow dust jackets. (some toning to the spine and back cover of the dj, offsetting to endpapers from binding process). First printing. A detective novel by this Oxford academic who wrote his literate and witty mysteries under the Innes pen name, featuring Sir John Appleby, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Described simply on the front cover of the dust jacket as "his thriller." 192 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81176
- Title
- THE BLOODY WOOD.
- Author
- Innes, Michael (pseudonym of J.I. M. Stewart)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine example of Gollancz's distinctive yellow dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine example of Gollancz's distinctive yellow
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575002190
- ISBN 13
- 9780575002197
- Publisher
- Gollancz,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1966.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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