In a Dry Season [Signed]
by Peter Robinson
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067088524X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670885244
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About This Item
Toronto: Viking, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto: Viking, 1999. First Canadian Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); [x],405pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $32.00 price intact; boards in dark green and black cloth with dark green lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some nudging and rubbing at head of spine. Boards sturdy and square, also with light nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Robinson's tenth Inspector Banks mystery, which won the 2000 Anthony Award for Best Novel, was nominated for the 1999 Hammett Prize, and was shortlisted for the Edgar Award.
Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Robinson's tenth Inspector Banks mystery, which won the 2000 Anthony Award for Best Novel, was nominated for the 1999 Hammett Prize, and was shortlisted for the Edgar Award.
Synopsis
In A Dry Season is the 12th novel by crime-writer Peter Robinson, published in 1999 and is 10th in the multi award-winning Inspector Alan Banks series. The novel is widely acclaimed as Robinson's best, a large step forward in ambition from previous books, and this was reflected in its critical and commcercial response. The novel was shortlisted for the American Edgar Award and won the Anthony Award.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29969
- Title
- In a Dry Season [Signed]
- Author
- Peter Robinson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067088524X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670885244
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1999
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- Rubbing
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