King of the Golden Valley
by Scholefield, Alan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/About Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 024111697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241116975
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Book. Illus. by Len Thurston (wraparound dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A letter written in 1939 is received by the addressee's son in 1985, and leads from London to Peking and across the Black Gobi Desert in a quest to solve a decades-old racing scandal. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering to spine, 225 pages + author's note. Cocked, mild wear to corners/spine ends, tanning, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, light edgewear..
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- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011541
- Title
- King of the Golden Valley
- Author
- Scholefield, Alan
- Illustrator
- Len Thurston (wraparound dust jacket illustration)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- About Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 024111697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241116975
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- BLACK GOBI DESERT, RACING, ANTIQUE CARS, RACE ENTHUSIASTS, LEN THURSTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (hardcover);
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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...
- 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
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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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...