The Singing Sands
by TEY, Josephine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Poor
- Seller
-
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Peter Davies, 1952. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. beige cloth, 245 pp., very slight splay to boards, book plate glued to ffep, dj is price-clipped, dj shows wear with separation of the front panel aong spine edge (could be tape-repaired) & wear on fold-ins with other small tears, chipping, a few pieces missing at top and bottom of spine area, and few small tape stains from previous repairs. [99]
Synopsis
JOSEPHINE TEY is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue , which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles , but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-52
- Title
- The Singing Sands
- Author
- TEY, Josephine
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Davies
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
J.C. Bell
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About the Seller
J.C. Bell
Biblio member since 2005
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
About J.C. Bell
We are a home-based book business and have been selling books online since 1998. We are currently in the process of cataloguing several more thousandused and antiquarian books.
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- 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....
- A.N.
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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