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Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
by Fforde, Jasper
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670038717
- ISBN 13
- 9780670038718
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed & dated by author on title page. First Edition w/ complete number line. 8vo. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ has mild rubbing, edgewear, and shelfwear. Book has edgwear, smudges to edges of text block, and mild toning to pages. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked.
Synopsis
The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels , Fforde’s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few—all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with Our Thursdays is Missing . Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Fforde’s latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot . Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world! Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 605987
- Title
- Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
- Author
- Fforde, Jasper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670038717
- ISBN 13
- 9780670038718
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2007014615
- Keywords
- WHAR.968 Mystery Fiction, , , , , , , ,
Terms of Sale
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- Title Page
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- Text Block
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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