Funeral of Figaro
by Peters, Ellis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: The Crime Club/Collins, 1962. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition Ellis Peters novel, set around the murder of the baritone of a performance of Marriage of Figaro; published by Collins for The Crime Club; dustwrapper illustration shows a noose descending from a musical symbol above red titling; red cloth boards with black titling and Crime Club symbol to foot of spine; endpapers, prelims, last page, and text block foxed (medium), occasional light foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, price clipped, short closed tears to head of spine, longer closed tears to rear panel at foot of spine and fold of flap, and with some creases; dustwrapper protected in removable, acid-free sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18319
- Title
- Funeral of Figaro
- Author
- Peters, Ellis
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper
- Jacket Condition
- Dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Crime Club/Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
Gotcha By The Books
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Camira, Queensland
About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...