The Garden of Weapons
by Gardner, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0070228515
- ISBN 13
- 9780070228511
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($11.95), lightly rubbed, creased and with some closed tears at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded at the top edge. Firmly bound with a forward lean, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Gardner's spy thriller that sees Big Herbie Kruger investigate the death and a defection of KGB officers in East Berlin.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8647
- Title
- The Garden of Weapons
- Author
- Gardner, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070228515
- ISBN 13
- 9780070228511
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Spy, Thriller, Cold War, KGB, Russia, USSR, Soviet Union, 20th Century Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction, Stopa
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Based in the far northwest reaches of the Chicago suburbs, Carpetbagger Books specializes in literary fiction and modern firsts. Inventory is updated weekly, if not more frequently, so browse often. If you are after something particular, don't hesitate to communicate: not all inventory is uploaded online.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...