Grave Descend (Bantam Book T8324)
by Lange, John (Michael Crichton)
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Good. Mass-market paperback, 12mo 7" tall, pp. 154, photo-overlay cover, all edges stained yellow. Covers rubbed and creased, bookseller's stamp verso front cover with offset to ffep, faint spotting inside rear covers. About good. An island playground becomes a prison of nonstop terror in this Lange (Crichton) title. Originally published by Signet in 1970, it was recently republished by Hard Case Crime in 2006 with another great piece of cover art.
Synopsis
John Lange is the author of numerous popular thrillers including Binary, Zero Cool, Odds On, Scratch One, Easy Go, Drug of Choice , and The Venom Business . He received an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America for Grave Descend for best paperback novel of the year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harropian Books, IOBA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 820
- Title
- Grave Descend (Bantam Book T8324)
- Author
- Lange, John (Michael Crichton)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
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About the Seller
Harropian Books, IOBA
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Nelson, British Columbia
About Harropian Books, IOBA
Harropian Books is an online bookseller offering a diverse selection of antiquarian, collectible, rare and out of print items. Our focus is on the interesting & unusual, covering all fields. ***** We are a member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and have attended the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (2011), Rare Book School in Virginia (2014 - Developing Collections ; 2016 - The History of Printed Book Illustration in the West), London Rare Book School (2021 - The History of Maps and Mapping) and Gwain Weaver Art Conservation (2019 - Care and Identification of Photographs).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...