THE DESPAIN PAPERS.
by Sims, George (1923-1999)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0961969334
- ISBN 13
- 9780961969332
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: Holmes Publishing Co.,, 1992.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). Limited, signed first edition. A later mystery featuring an antiquarian bookseller by this author who was himself a bookseller. "Jack Quinn, a dealer in rare books, is asked by an American customer to discover what happened to the papers of Gerald Despain, a fanatical anti-Semite and British traitor who joined the Nazis in 1939." #5 of 50 numbered copies printed on French Speckletone paper, designed by Ellis H. Neal Jr and SIGNED by the author (out of a total edition of 650 copies). 146 pp plus colophon.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74146
- Title
- THE DESPAIN PAPERS.
- Author
- Sims, George (1923-1999)
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0961969334
- ISBN 13
- 9780961969332
- Publisher
- Holmes Publishing Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- 1992.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliomystery and crime fiction;
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- Fine
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