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The Bookman's Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel
by John Dunning (1942- )
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0743249925
- ISBN 13
- 9780743249928
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
369 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Cliff Janeway is back! The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of Denver bookman-author John Dunning and the award-winning crime novel series that helped to turn the nation on to first-edition book collecting. First, it was Booked to Die, then The Bookman's Wake. When Cliff Janeway investigates the provenance of a signed first edition of a memoir by nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Burton, he becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a lost library of rare Burton material. Condition: Signed and dated on the title page. A near fine copy in a fine jacket.
Reviews
On Oct 31 2011, Okfine said:
I'm not as satified with Mr. Dunnings works pertaining to the Janeway series,as I was with the first novel.I have all four of them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L0834
- Title
- The Bookman's Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel
- Author
- John Dunning (1942- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743249925
- ISBN 13
- 9780743249928
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York, London, Toronto and Sydney
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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