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She Was A Lady
by Leslie Charteris
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Red embossed paper-covered boards. Sixth volume in the Saint Saga. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Slight cracking to gutter with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with noticeable bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a prominent forward lean. Small splits to spine end.
Synopsis
She Was a Lady is the title of a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris featuring his creation, Simon Templar, alias The Saint. The novel was first published in magazine serial form in 1930, and was first published in complete form in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in 1931. This was the seventh book chronicling Templar's adventures, and the fourth full novel. Like other early Simon Templar novels, this book underwent a number of name changes in succeeding editions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688717273MEP
- Title
- She Was A Lady
- Author
- Leslie Charteris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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