The Killer and the Slain: A Strange Story
by Walpole, Hugh
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Book League of America, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. 300 pp. Top edge blue. Spine cocked. Small spot of wear to spine head and top corners. Sunning to tail edge of front board. Dust jacket is cropped to flaps, foxed and soiled, heavily chipped to extremities, rubbed to spine. This is a curious story, and a powerful one. As a piece of harrowing, almost mesmeric suspense, it is a brilliant tour de force, but as a masterful study in character, in the slow moral disintegration of a man, it is more than that. It is as skillful a study of the dual nature of man as has appeared since Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009542
- Title
- The Killer and the Slain: A Strange Story
- Author
- Walpole, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Book League of America
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Suspense, fiction, Hugh Walpole, mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery;
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About the Seller
Minotavros Books
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Whitby, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.