She Was A Lady
by Charteris, Leslie
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1931. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth boards, imprinted decoration, black titles on spine. Light edge / corner wear, spine ends bumped but intact. Tanned cut edges, faint speckles. Endpapers damp marked. Age tanned text block, text clear. Binding solid. No jacket.
Synopsis
She Was a Lady is the title of a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris featuring his creation, Simon Templar, alias The Saint. The novel was first published in magazine serial form in 1930, and was first published in complete form in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in 1931. This was the seventh book chronicling Templar's adventures, and the fourth full novel. Like other early Simon Templar novels, this book underwent a number of name changes in succeeding editions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clevedon Community Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61172
- Title
- She Was A Lady
- Author
- Charteris, Leslie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 315
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Internet Sale, Hardback Fiction.
Terms of Sale
Clevedon Community Bookshop
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About the Seller
Clevedon Community Bookshop
Biblio member since 2012
Clevedon, Somerset
About Clevedon Community Bookshop
Clevedon Community Bookshop, co-operatively owned, opened on 31 December 2011 and now has a general stock of approximately 20,000 books. Our bookshop in Copse Road is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00am to 4.00pm. The co-operative comprises just over 600 members from around the world and was set up to stop the only second-hand bookshop in our town from closing. The benefit of being a member/shareholder is only social: no-one benefits financially. All profits are used to improve the bookshop and its stock, and, through events, to contribute to the literacy and literary profile of our town. The Bookshop Manager has fifteen years' experience in second-hand bookselling. Email us if you would like to join our co-operative and thus jointly own our bookshop with us.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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