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Dark is the Clue - His 47th Detective Story
by Punshon, E.R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Picton, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Gollancz, Great Britain, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. A Bobby Owen mystery. "Commander Bobby Owen of the Yard is on his way to visit Willoughby Wynne, concerning a gang of thieves operating in the immediate rural neighbourhood. But when murder comes, amid the loganberry bushes, it is a suspected blackmailer, not gangster, who is found strangled. Mr Wynne demands to be considered a suspect himself, but the list isn’t short. It seems more than one person in the district has been living a double life, one they are anxious to protect. And among the petty feuds, petty criminals and respectable gentry, a criminal mastermind is moving anonymously, pulling strings. Bobby will need a very large pair of shears to cut them this time. Dark is the Clue is the thirty-third novel in the Bobby Owen Mystery series." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 223 pages. There is an old ink stamp on the first endpaper. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket has numerous chips & tears as well as some rubbing and shelf wear. Dust Jacket un-clipped. The only sign the book was ex-library, is one stamp on the first end paper.There is no sign of a pocket or it's removal. DJ. has some chips, bumps and small tears. Especially at the top and bottom of the spine. Also on the corners. There is some age spotting to the exterior of the text block.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Britain/UK; Inventory No: 008451. .
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- Seller
- Bong Bong Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 008451
- Title
- Dark is the Clue - His 47th Detective Story
- Author
- Punshon, E.R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- BZDB3 Crime Fiction; Britain/UK; Unbranded Punshon, E.R. Dark is the Clue - His 47th Detective Story
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Picton, New South Wales
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- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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....
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