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They Hanged My Saintly Billy: The Life And Death Of Dr William Palmer
by Graves William Dr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Garden City. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covers, silver titles pannelled in red, to the spine. A First Edition in Very Good++ condition, no markings or lines through the book and a tight binding. Light binding to the spine ends. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good condition, light cover edgewar and rubbing, spine browning. "Robert Graves recounts the life of William Palmer: surgeon, racehorse owner...a confessed forger who got girls into trouble, doped horses, robbed a few people...but was he a prisoner? Based on an actual trial that took place in 1856, this novel, like Graves' Wife to Mr. Milton and I, Claudius, has all the immediacy and spiciness of contemporary Victorian life. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27431
- Title
- They Hanged My Saintly Billy: The Life And Death Of Dr William Palmer
- Author
- Graves William Dr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Garden City
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, Crime Novels
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction; Crime & Prisons;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
About Bytown Bookery
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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