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DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY: A Novel -First American Edition-
by P.D. James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307959856
- ISBN 13
- 9780307959850
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (292 pages). As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Chartwell Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143632
- Title
- DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY: A Novel -First American Edition-
- Author
- P.D. James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307959856
- ISBN 13
- 9780307959850
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo (292 pages)
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