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Free to Trade: A Novel of Suspense
by Ridpath, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 006017630X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060176303
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Stated 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound mid-green paper covered boards with a black cloth spine strip, light green metallic title to spine & blind impressed logo to face. No bumps or rubs, light fading & shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Very slight spine lean. VG* Jacket condition: Colour text-illustrated dust wrapper, black titles to spine & face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $23.00. some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Slight damage to front cover at hinge. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (mid green) with minimal fading. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Pages rough cut at fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 346 pp. text.* Description: Ex-olympic runner Paul Murray, an apprenticed bond trader at a London brokerage firm, is shocked by the killing of his new girl friend, an inquisitive young female colleague. When he sets out to discover more about an investment in which Debbie appeared to be involved he turns up a rogue?s gallery of nasties and stumbles into a global web of financial fraud, intrigue, and murder.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st edn. with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1280
- Title
- Free to Trade: A Novel of Suspense
- Author
- Ridpath, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 006017630X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060176303
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- NY USA 346
- Date Published
- 1995-01-01
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 16.5 x 3.2 x 24.8 cm
Terms of Sale
Cocksparrow Books
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
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- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Fine
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- New
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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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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