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Hot Money
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD+/VG/GD++
- ISBN 10
- 0718128516
- ISBN 13
- 9780718128517
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. thus.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine . No bumps, minor rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, red and gold titles to face with white and gold titles to spine. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with slight nicks and laminate lifting in places. Now in clear protective wrapper. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Small dated dedication in ink to fep. Crisp and tight with slight reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to end-papers, top & fore-edge, some paper colouration throughout. GD+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 278 pp. text. iv pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: A steeplechase racing crime novel about a man who becomes involved in a horrifying race to find his wife's murderer before the maniac strikes again.* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st thus. with some minor faults reducing it to GD+, now in a clear protected dust jacket.*
Synopsis
New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction Fabulously wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke has in his possession something the whole world wants-and anyone could kill for. In fact, even Malcolm's closest kin are moving in a little too close.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1622
- Title
- Hot Money
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD+/VG/GD++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus,
- ISBN 10
- 0718128516
- ISBN 13
- 9780718128517
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 288
- Date Published
- 1987-09-21
- Size
- 15.8 x 2.7 x 24.2 cm
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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