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The White Lioness (UK Signed Copy)
by Henning Mankell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1860469604
- ISBN 13
- 9781860469602
- Seller
-
Hull, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Harvill, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Fine. The Book is very good, square and tight. It is unmarked, with clean pages, free of inscriptions or marks and has been signed by the author directly on to the title page. It has a light bump to the top edge of the front board adjacent to the spine. The pages show significant yellowing due to ageing and paper quality. The Dust Jacket is fine, unfaded, unclipped (£14.99) and is free of rips, tears or marks. The book includes a ticket for the event at which it was signed laid-in. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.
Synopsis
Mankell is in the first division of crime writing' The TimesIn peaceful southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing persons case, he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, meanwhile Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom. Wallander find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade members of the South African secret service and a former KGB agent, all of them set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. Faced with a world in which terrorism knows no frontiers Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Just Fiction Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14825
- Title
- The White Lioness (UK Signed Copy)
- Author
- Henning Mankell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860469604
- ISBN 13
- 9781860469602
- Publisher
- Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime & Thrillers;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Just Fiction Books
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Hull
About Just Fiction Books
Established in 2007 by two book collectors based in East Yorkshire. We specialise in modern fiction, especially signed first edition hardback copies of Crime fiction and Historical fiction titles.
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- Spine
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- Fine
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