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The Clocks
by Christie Agatha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Book Club, 1963. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tight firm clean copy with no signatures, inscriptions or notations discovered. Red cloth hard cover with black titled spine - faint edge wear and some slight age staining. Unclipped jacket with slight edge wear and rubbing. Book itself appears unread..
Synopsis
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Clocks;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila’s secretarial agency and asking for her by name—yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb’s ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 — his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot.
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Details
- Seller
- M and P Books PBFA member
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006355
- Title
- The Clocks
- Author
- Christie Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- The Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Crime Christie Poirot
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
M and P Books PBFA member
Biblio member since 2010
Buxton, Derbyshire
About M and P Books PBFA member
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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