The Octopus Group, 01/01/1990. Hardcover. Used; Very Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. Eleventh Impression. 139 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy sunning to spine. Moderate water stains to boards. Boards are mildly warped.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1962 (500 gram rate) unclipped yellow paper Dw chipped to spine with some loss at atil and a small patch missing between the publishers price and the VG logo, light fade top edge of upper board, owner rubber stamp to fep, 5'- cheap edition, 6pp intro before the list of works and title page, fifteenth impression May 1962, 138pp , thin paper stock. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
New York: Wings Books, 1992. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Bronze colored boards with bronze lettering on the black spine. First Edition Thus. 586 pages. The pages have yellowed with age. The dust jacket has just a little shelfwear and is in new mylar. Three stories in one volume.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mystery Omnibus.
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1942. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1942. Eighth Impression. 139 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are heavily tanned with light foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and edges, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Notable cracking to joints. Boards are mildly warped.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1949. 11th reprint. hardback. Good, 11th impression (1st pub 1923), missing d/j, faded blue boards, faded spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked. Owner's inscription ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Dorothy L. SayerÃs first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In WimseyÃs first case, he undertakes an investigation to discover the identity and the murderer of a man who is found in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez. An ingenious and intricate plot follows that essentially announced the advent of a new star in the firmament of detective story writing, and one of the first magnitude.
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