Play Dead
by DICKINSON, PETER
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0892964782
- ISBN 13
- 9780892964789
- Seller
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: The Mysterious Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Except for library marks, the book and jacket are clean and unmarked, no wear to edges, tight and sound binding, clean and crisp pages. Jacket is bright and clean with illustration by Marc Burckhardt, not price-clipped, rubbed. A story set in 1989, during the time of political upheaval throughout the communist world, with a heroine of fifty and a hero of two, by Peter Dickinson, a multilple Gold Daggers Award Winner from the British Crime Writers' Association. A "--simultaneous insight into kids and their minders, and emerging nations and the concept of freedom--all done with consummate storytelling skill", (Peter Lovesey). 282 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. The Mysterious Press, New York, 1992.
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Details
- Seller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 022094
- Title
- Play Dead
- Author
- DICKINSON, PETER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0892964782
- ISBN 13
- 9780892964789
- Publisher
- The Mysterious Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, BRITISH THRILLER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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The Parnassus BookShop
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