A Coffin From Hong Kong
by Chase, James Hadley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Robert Hale. Good in Good dust jacket. (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to book and dust-jacket. 30mm missing at tail of dust-jacket spine. Chips and tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing.186, [5], [1 (blank)] pages. Black boards with silver lettering and red illustration on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. Crime fiction, a novel. "A mysterious voice on the telephone; a beautiful Chinese girl shot dead; a rich old man with a troubled conscience; a private investigator involved in murder; a Chinese prostitute who talked too much; and a coffin." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23956
- Title
- A Coffin From Hong Kong
- Author
- Chase, James Hadley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1962)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Blurb
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