The Palace Guard
by MacLeod, Charlotte
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Clean boards. Very minor spotting to fore edge. Moderate sunning to DJ spine as well as light rubbing to corners. 1/2 cm tear to
- ISBN 10
- 0385175337
- ISBN 13
- 9780385175333
- Seller
-
Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Clean boards. Very minor spotting to fore edge. Moderate sunning to DJ spine as well as light rubbing to corners. 1/2 cm tear to DJ's head of spine. Overall pages clean and binding tight. Very good in very good DJ.. Hardcover large octavo in yellow DJ. 183 pages; 22 cm. Abstract: Sarah and Max attend a concert at a palatial museum, but before the night is over they will be investigating the murder of a guard. Kelling, Sarah (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Women detectives -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Detective and mystery stories.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89236
- Title
- The Palace Guard
- Author
- MacLeod, Charlotte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Clean boards. Very minor spotting to fore edge. Moderate sunning to DJ spine as well as light rubbing to corners. 1/2 cm tear to
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385175337
- ISBN 13
- 9780385175333
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1981
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...