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Gallows Thief
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G+/G+
- ISBN 10
- 0060082739
- ISBN 13
- 9780060082734
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002 G+/G+. 8vo. original tan boards gilt (ex-library with label, rsm etc to early leaves, spine slanted, some thumbing) in dustwrapper (rubbed & a trifle worn to extremities, various labels, probably removeable, under loose plastic covering); pp. iv, 298 (last blank), with endpaper map. A reading copy.. First US. Hard Cover. G+/G+.
Synopsis
Gallows Thief (2001) is a mystery novel by Bernard Cornwell set in London in the year 1817, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop. Rider Sandman, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, is hired as an investigator as a formality to rubber-stamp the death sentence of a condemned murderer. Instead, he discovers a conspiracy to conceal the real killer. In the slang of the time, a “gallows thief,” (also a “crap prig”) is a person who prevents the hanging of an innocent person.
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Details
- Seller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 012955
- Title
- Gallows Thief
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- Jacket Condition
- G+
- Edition
- First US
- ISBN 10
- 0060082739
- ISBN 13
- 9780060082734
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Bernard Cornwell Gallows Thief Regency London Historical Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- Dustwrapper
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- 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...