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THE JAPANESE CORPSE
by VAN DE WETERING, Janwillem
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395257778
- ISBN 13
- 9780395257777
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1977. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in black cloth with silver gilt titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else FINE. Grijpstra, de Gier and the Yakusa!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including Outsider in Amsterdam , The Corpse on the Dike , The Japanese Corpse , and eleven other books in the Grijpstra and de Gier series.
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- Bookseller
- SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001003
- Title
- THE JAPANESE CORPSE
- Author
- VAN DE WETERING, Janwillem
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395257778
- ISBN 13
- 9780395257777
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Japan, Detective, Amsterdam, Yakusa, Police Procedural, Scene Of The Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUTHOR V~W~X;
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About the Seller
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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