The By-Pass Control
by Spillane, Mickey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Arthur Barker. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Moderate foxing to page edges. 1" and smaller tears and creases at tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/4" tears and chips at corners of dust wrapper. Edges of dust wrapper rubbed. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 220 pages. Brown papered boards. Page dimensions: 195 x 128mm. "The guy was as good as dead and knew it." - opening sentence.; 8vo .
Synopsis
A tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6211
- Title
- The By-Pass Control
- Author
- Spillane, Mickey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Arthur Barker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1967)
- Keywords
- New Zealand Literature Humour Social Commentary So
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...