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The Skull Mantra
by Eliot Pattison
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0786222581
- ISBN 13
- 9780786222582
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Thorndike Press, USA, 2000. Large Print. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 709 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Thorndike Press, USA, 2000. Large Print. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Spine has minor lean and minimal reading creases. Clear, self-adhesive laminate over boards. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: When a headless corpse is found by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shall Tao Yun might seem the perfect man to solve the crime -- except that he is in that very prison for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before an American tourist delegation arrives, the district commander grants a temporary release to the brilliant and embittered Shah. But when the early evidence shows that the killer was an ancient Buddhist demon, party officials try to thwart Shan's investigation by arresting an innocent monk ... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0786222581. ISBN/EAN: 9780786222582. Inventory No: 18090077.. 9780786222582
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Details
- Seller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18090077
- Title
- The Skull Mantra
- Author
- Eliot Pattison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Large Print
- ISBN 10
- 0786222581
- ISBN 13
- 9780786222582
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Skull Mantra
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Manyhills Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Manyhills Books
Biblio member since 2009
Traralgon, Victoria
About Manyhills Books
Manyhills Book Store stocks New, Unread, Collectible and Used books.
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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....
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