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The Pale Horse
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Collins Crime Club , 1961. Red cloth, black text to spine. 256pp. Sunned spine. Small black felt pen numerals to top front corner. lacks front and rear feps. Trace of foxing to text block edges. Pages clean, binding firm. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie. The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001332
- Title
- The Pale Horse
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Mystery Crime Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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