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Death At the Bar
by Marsh, Ngaio
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
London: Collins. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Orangey-red cloth titled to spine in black. Crime Club publication. No date, circa 1940. Cloth splash- dampstained, corner wear, spine mildly softened, slight soil to cloth and edge. Two PO names to ffep. Sound binding and hinges. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, lightly edgeworn, toned to flap edges, chipped to points, professionally repaired to spine ends. Few minor stress fractures and very minor dampstains. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 284+ pages .
Synopsis
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences.At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together in the tap-room. They are in the habit of playing darts, but on this occasion an experiment takes the place of the usual game – a fatal experiment which calls for investigation.A distinguished painter, a celebrated actor, a woman graduate, a plump lady from County Clare, and a Devonshire farmer all play their parts in the unravelling of the problem...
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36763
- Title
- Death At the Bar
- Author
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
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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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 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...
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