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The Fashion in Shrouds
by Margery Allingham
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0434018759
- ISBN 13
- 9780434018758
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1976. Re-issue 4th Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1976 re-issue/fourth edition. Size 12mo, 7.25", 316 pages. Purple hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and spine ends rubbed, small crease to top quarter of spine, spine slightly faded, spotting to edge of page block just creeping on to page margins, slight toning to pages. Dust jacket condition good, age toned, spotting to verso and flaps which shows through in places, 2cm dent in front panel, spine ends slightly chipped, spine sunned, not price clipped. An Albert Campion Murder Mystery
Synopsis
Margaret Allingham was a prolific writer who sold her first story at age eight and published her first novel before turning 20. Allingham went on to become one of the pre-eminent writers who helped bring the detective story to maturity in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018072
- Title
- The Fashion in Shrouds
- Author
- Margery Allingham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Re-issue 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0434018759
- ISBN 13
- 9780434018758
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 316
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- FICTION FASHION DESIGNERS COUTURE CRIME THRILLER POLICE DETECTIVE MURDER
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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