Poison for Teacher
by Spain, Nancy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 1949. Poison for Teacher is journalist and radio personality Nancy Spain's best-known mystery novel, featuring an amateur detective ballerina, and a girls' school called "Radcliff Hall." Spain gives more than a nod to the writer Radclyffe Hall, author of the milestone lesbian novel, The Well of Lonlieness. Inscribed by author "Dear Tanya I cannot believe that you will like (or have time to read) this very silly book from your new pen friend Nancy Spain November 1949".
287 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Repairs to jacket. Slightly foxed.
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- Bookseller
- The Second Shelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 349
- Title
- Poison for Teacher
- Author
- Spain, Nancy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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