STRONG POISON
by Sayers, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Brewer & Warren Inc, 1930. Second Printing Before Publication". Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 7.7 in. x 5.2 in., pp. 344. Red cloth boards with black title and bold poison design to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top and bottom of spine; sunning to spine. Top front corner lightly nudged. Creasing to top corners of pp. 1-18 and 302-312. Between 1923 and 1939 Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) wrote ten novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1930, in Strong Poison, she introduced a leading female character, Harriet Vane, the object of Wimsey's love. Harriet appears sporadically in future novels, resisting Lord Peter's proposals of marriage until Gaudy Night in 1935, six novels later.
Synopsis
Strong Poison is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87224
- Title
- STRONG POISON
- Author
- Sayers, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing Before Publication"
- Publisher
- Brewer & Warren Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Bookseller catalogs
- MYSTERY;
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...