The Curse of the Pharaohs by Peters, Elizabeth - 1981-05-01

Dodd Mead, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked interior text. Library sticker visible on jacket spine beneath mylar. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve and pasted to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dodd Mead. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. Spine cracked. Slightly dampstained.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1981. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 357pp. Full number line on the copyright page. Dustjacket is price clipped and has light corner wear. J6 . Very Good. Half Cloth. First Edition. 1981.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1981. First edition hard cover with dust jacket, VG/VG. Remainder mark to lower page edges. Unmarked bookplate on front flyleaf with some residual adhesive above plate and on pastedown. Clean, square copy. Jacket is rubbed at edges and has some superficial scuffs to rear panel. Price of $10.95 intact on front flap. New mylar cover. 357pp. The second Amelia Peabody mystery.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Dodd Mead, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Personally inscribed by Elizabeth Peter. First printing with the full number line. Minor wear to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. A very collectible copy in excellent condition.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of the second Amelia Peabody mystery, set in Egypt during the 1890s and famously written by a trained Egyptologist. Once again a mysterious death brings Amelia Peabody back to Egypt in this follow up to the classic CROCODILE ON THE SANDBANK (1975). Egyptologist Barbara Mertz, writing as Elizabeth Peters, used her training to craft the world and work of Peabody, a no-nonsense woman of hard-earned experience - and major antecedent to other beloved female sleuths like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone (who debuted in A IS FOR ALIBI a year later) and J.D. Robb's Eve Dallas. A beautiful copy, quite difficult to find signed. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cloth-backed grey boards. Original unclipped ($10.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Charles Geer. Blue endpapers. 358 pages. Inscribed by Peters to title page. Pencil owner name to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild bumping to corners and spine… Read More