London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus.. Octavo. Pp. 286. Black black, red spine lettering, in dust jacket. Minor foxing to prelims and endpages, and fore- and top edges, tiny Toronto bookseller stamp at bottom of front free endpaper, else a nice, tight, square copy. Yellow dust jacket is soiled and browned, and with a couple of stains to rear panel, nicks at the tips, shallow closed tears at head of front panel, small shallow piece missing at head of spine extending slightly to rear panel (text not affected), shallow strip missing from tail of spine (text not affected). Overall, a very good copy in a good plus dust jacket.

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Bookseller: Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 37445
Title: In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories
Author: Sayers, Dorothy L
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good Plus.
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1939

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About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA

Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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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