Transcription
by Atkinson, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0857525883
- ISBN 13
- 9780857525888
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 12th. Stated.* Date of Publication: 2018* Publisher: Doubleday.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue-black cloth, with impressed glossy title to spine & flamingo logo to face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Coloured illustrated dust wrapper, black and luminous red titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £20.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured London map to end papers (Dolphin Square). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. Is bound with two silk ribbon markers, one blue, one red. FINE.* Illustrations: None apart from end papers.* Pages: 328 pp. text. xvii pp., notes, sources, acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Kate Atkinson's latest novel deals with a young woman, Juliet Armstrong, reluctantly recruited into working for MI5 during the Second World War. After the end of the war she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later however, now working for the BBC she is confronted by figures from her past. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realise that there is no action without consequences.* A FINE text copy of the 1st/12th with minimal faults in a FINE protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3406
- Title
- Transcription
- Author
- Atkinson, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 12th.Impression. 2018
- ISBN 10
- 0857525883
- ISBN 13
- 9780857525888
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London UK 345
- Date Published
- 2018-09-06
- Size
- 16.2 x 3.3 x 24 cm
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