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The Sniper
by Roberts, Willo Davis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385192770
- ISBN 13
- 9780385192774
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Doubleday Publishing, 1984. BF5 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with a very light remainder mark on the top outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some light edge wear and chipping along the top and bottom spine edges. This is a title in the publisher's Crime Club Selection series. The main character unexpectedly inherits a Victorian house from a distance relative. She converts it to a boardinghouse for her homeless aunt and a few of her aunt's aging friends. Her new life is unsettled by murder by a sniper on the prowl who seems to choose his targets at random but then begins closing in on the new homeowner and her guests. By the author of "Act of Fear," "The Jaubert Ring," and "Expendable." 182p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW09411
- Title
- The Sniper
- Author
- Roberts, Willo Davis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385192770
- ISBN 13
- 9780385192774
- Publisher
- Doubleday Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Fiction Mystery Murder Crime Detective Detectives
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery / Authors P-Z; Fiction: Mystery / Amateur Sleuths;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Shelf Wear
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Remainder Mark
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- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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