THE LITERATURE OF CRIME AND DETECTION: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
by Woeller, Waltrand and Bruce Cassiday
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0804429839
- ISBN 13
- 9780804429832
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ungar, 1988. Near fine (2 small and faint soil marks on top cover edges) in very good+ dust jacket (wrinkles at spine head and foot; 1 closed tear at flap fold). Reprint of 1984 "Illustrierte Geschichte der Kriminalliteratur" with additional material. English translation by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Willy Merson. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 215 pages. From Sophocles to Elmore Leonard. This is NOT an ex-library book.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.
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- Bookseller
- Barbara Bilson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001743
- Title
- THE LITERATURE OF CRIME AND DETECTION: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
- Author
- Woeller, Waltrand and Bruce Cassiday
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0804429839
- ISBN 13
- 9780804429832
- Publisher
- Ungar
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Mystery, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- MYSTERY; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General;
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