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THE BLACK SPECTACLES, Being the Psychologists' Murder Case
by Carr, John Dickson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton (A Fingerprint Book), 1972. Book. Illus. by Patrick Millington Synge (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. Small octavo. A Dr. Gideon Fell mystery, this one finding our celebrated sleuth solving the murder of a man who turns out to be the "conclusion of a series of senseless poisonings which have been terrifying the village of Sodbury Cross." First published in Great Britain in 1939 before being published in a second edition in 1969, this being the first reprint of that. Scarlet cloth w/gilt spine lettering/fingerprint design, 237 pages. Previous owner's signature to top of front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light surface wear. All in all, a pretty nice copy of a not particularly common title..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018518
- Title
- THE BLACK SPECTACLES, Being the Psychologists' Murder Case
- Author
- Carr, John Dickson
- Illustrator
- Patrick Millington Synge (dust jacket illustration)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton (A Fingerprint Book)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, GIDEON FELL, DETECTIVE, DETECTIVES, MURDER, CRIME, CRIMINALS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (hardcover);
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Augustine Funnell Books
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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