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A MIND TO MURDER.
by JAMES, P. D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, [1963], 1963. First edition. First edition. Author's second mystery novel. Signed by the author on the title page. Lightly foxed on front and rear fly leafs and fore-edges, else a fine, bright copy in dust jacket with a tiny rub to head of spine and top front corner point. Adam Dalgleish mystery. This copy is housed in a cloth clamshell case with the dust jacket copy repeated on the front and rear covers and the spine panel. An exceptional copy of a scarce title.
Synopsis
P. D. James is the author of twenty-one books, most of which have been filmed for television. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Departments of Great Britain's Home Office. She has served as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 and was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame in 2008. She lives in London and Oxford. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52250
- Title
- A MIND TO MURDER.
- Author
- JAMES, P. D
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, [1963]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
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BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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About BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and rare books dealing with Mystery and Western Americana. Books in the mystery field include not only Mystery, but also Detective, Espionage, and Adventure Fiction. Our Western Americana Section offers books about the development of the American West. All books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
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- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
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