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Police Headquarters
by Reynolds, Quentin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Cassell & Company, Ltd, London, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece showing police Commissioner O'Brien congratulating Frank Phillips on his promotion to rank of Inspector. Black coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white illustrated dustwrapper with yellow and red titles to the front panel and backstrip. A book about policing the city of New York in the early to mid-1950s. Particularly focusing on one man, Frank Phillips, who was at the time, in charge of Detective Bureau. A little softening to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning of the textblock edges and of the pages. Some notations in blue coloured ink to the top left-hand corner of the free front end paper. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Sunning of the backstrip and rear panel with rubbing of the dustwrapper. The results of insect activity can be seen to the top edge of the rear dustwrapper panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 340 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; America; Inventory No: 0116008. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0116008
- Title
- Police Headquarters
- Author
- Reynolds, Quentin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- BZDB2 New York -- Policing, True Crime Law & Criminal Studies; America; Unbranded Reynolds, Quentin Police Headquarters
- Bookseller catalogs
- America;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- New
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