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Knots and Crosses
by RANKIN IAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0370310578
- ISBN 13
- 9780370310572
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bodley Head, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Publisher's original red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Crime fiction featuring Detective Inspector John Rebus - his first appearance. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0370310578. A fine copy (usual very slight toning to edges of paper, almost inevitable - due to the cheap paper) iin a fine D/W with absolutely no fading whatsoever to the red spine lettering and quite scarce thus. SIGNED & DOODLED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.
Synopsis
Knots and Crosses is a 1987 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the first of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was written while Rankin was a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. In the introduction to this novel, Rankin states that Rebus lives directly opposite the window in Marchmont that he looked out of while writing the book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490716926
- Title
- Knots and Crosses
- Author
- RANKIN IAN
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0370310578
- ISBN 13
- 9780370310572
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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