Evil Intent
by Wainwright, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Crime Club / Collins. Fair in Poor dust jacket. (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Numerous library stamps and markings. Adhesive tape stains to boards and endpapers and edges of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in adhesive plastic jacket.; 222 pages. Red papered boards with gilt lettering and Crime Club logo on spine. "The thin, dove-grey fog and the ear-nipping frost made Police Constable Alister McIllwraith glad to be alive [...]" - opening sentence.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5836
- Title
- Evil Intent
- Author
- Wainwright, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Crime Club / Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1966)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...