Madmans Bend
by UPFIELD Arthur
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1963 book lacks fep, name and date at top corner of half title, prelims and closed edges heavily foxed with some fainter spotting onto page margins throughout, VG unclipped DW has short tears and chipping to spine ends and corners and lightly sunned spine, small pen code number at top of front fold in flap, would be very tidy apart from the foxing, 232pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003814
- Title
- Madmans Bend
- Author
- UPFIELD Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- inspector Napoleon Bonaparte crime australia
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIME & THRILLER Fiction;
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About Fortuna Books
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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