The Beast Must Die
by Blake, Nicholas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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ROYAL OAK, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lehmann, 1949. VG/VG-. Originally published in 1938, this edition is for The Holiday Library. Book has bumped corners, sunned front board, soiled page edges and owner name on front fep. Jacket has chipping on edges and is separated along rear spine fold.
Synopsis
NICHOLAS BLAKE was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof , in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder , and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.
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- Bookseller
- Friends of Royal Oak Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28865
- Title
- The Beast Must Die
- Author
- Blake, Nicholas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Y
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lehmann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- 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...
- Edges
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...