Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages. Reprint edition of mystery novel by Elizabeth Mackintosh, first published 1953, under her pen name Josephine Tey. Reading crease, rubbing along spine, light shelf wear, very faint foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked except for "53" (for the year of first publicatin) handwritten on the final, "About the Author" page.

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JOSEPHINE TEY is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue , which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles , but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust. From the Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AEB-515
Title: The Singing Sands
Author: Josephine Tey
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0684818922
ISBN 13: 9780684818924
Publisher: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster)
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: ELIZABETH MACKINTOSH, MYSTERY, ALAN GRANT, NOVEL
Bookseller catalogs: English literature; Scottish writers;

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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....
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.