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The Palace Tiger: No.4 (Joe Sandilands)
by Barbara Cleverly
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Constable, 2004. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 2004. First Published in Great Britain. 304 pages. Signed by the author. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Flatsigned by author to title page. Noticeable tanning to pages, text block edges and free endpapers; visibly heavier to outer edges of pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has subtle tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges. Some minor scuffing overall.
Synopsis
Barbara Cleverly is the author of five novels of historical suspense, including The Damascened Blade , winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award, The Last Kashmiri Rose, Ragtime in Simla, The Palace Tiger, and The Bee’s Kiss . She lives in Cambridge, England where she is now at work on the second Laetitia Talbot mystery, which Delta will publish in 2008.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690280742TMB
- Title
- The Palace Tiger: No.4 (Joe Sandilands)
- Author
- Barbara Cleverly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable
- Date Published
- 2004
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
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