The Murderer

Bookseller

Better Read Than Dead (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

1882

Title

The Murderer

Author

Roy A.K. Heath

Format/Binding

Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 190 pp

Book Condition

Used - Very good book, front free endpaper and edges rubber-stamped, text block lightly marked; very good dust jacket, spine sunned, sp

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First edition

Binding

Hardcover

ISBN 10

0850312280

ISBN 13

9780850312287

Publisher

Allison & Busby

Place of Publication

London

Date Published

1978

Keywords

Guyana, Roy A.K. Heath, The Murderer

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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...

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...

Sunned

Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...

Jacket

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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....

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....

Cloth

"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...

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...