Lord of the Sorcerers.
by DICKSON, Carter
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann. London. 1946. First Edition. DW. Endpapers foxed, a few pages dog-eared o/w a very nice copy in worn wrapper with tears to outer edges, lacking small portions at tail of spine and corners with a tape repair to the inside of the wrapper at the head of the spine.
Synopsis
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (also published as Lord of the Sorcerers) is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906-1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery or, more properly, a subset of that category known as an "impossible crime", and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64302
- Title
- Lord of the Sorcerers.
- Author
- DICKSON, Carter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Date Published
- William Heinemann. London. 1946
- Keywords
- DETECTIVE FICTION mystery
Terms of Sale
Addyman Books
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About the Seller
Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.