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Cat Among the Pigeons: A Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671557009
- ISBN 13
- 9780671557003
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pocket Books, 1985. Reprint . Mass Market Paperback. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 256 pp. Twentieth printing thus. The book is very slightly cocked. Light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight, and the text is clean.
Synopsis
Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 2, 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6), and the US edition at $2.95. It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040524
- Title
- Cat Among the Pigeons: A Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671557009
- ISBN 13
- 9780671557003
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction; Mystery
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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