Swing Brother Swing
by MARSH, NGAIO
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
The Crime Club 1949. First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 288pp, VG (previous owner's name & date to fep, light fading to spine ends, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light creasing to edges, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing)
Synopsis
Swing Brother Swing is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fifteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1949. The plot concerns the murder of a big band leader in London; the novel was published as A Wreath for Rivera in the United States.
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 235982
- Title
- Swing Brother Swing
- Author
- MARSH, NGAIO
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Crime Club 1949
- Keywords
- fiction literature modern first edition
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...