The Nine Tailors
by Sayers, Dorothy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Yucca Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Reprint of the 1934 original. Red leatherette boards clean, light edge wear; binding tight. Text clean and unmarked, no creases or tears.
Synopsis
The ninth Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy Sayers. Wimsey tries to solve the murder of an unknown corpse in a quiet country churchyard. The ‘Nine Tailors’ from the title is a reference to nine strokes of a church bell announcing when a man from the village has died. The novel incorporates ‘Change ringing as an integral part of this story. The Nine Tailors is considered by many to be Dorothy Sayers finest literary achievement
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Details
- Bookseller
- KnC Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BF00500103930
- Title
- The Nine Tailors
- Author
- Sayers, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Barce and World
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- murder mystery, English mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery;
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.