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The Dead Room
by Herbert Resnicow (1920 -1997)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0396089828
- ISBN 13
- 9780396089827
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
189 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 8 1/2) bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
When the body of inventor Walter Kassel is found in the echoless chamber called the "dead room" at Hamilcar Hi-Fi, sometime detective Ed Baer and his philosopher son Warren take on this locked-room mystery with six executive suspects.
Condition: Pages beginning to age tone else very good in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1365
- Title
- The Dead Room
- Author
- Herbert Resnicow (1920 -1997)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0396089828
- ISBN 13
- 9780396089827
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead and Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 189 pages
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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