The Visitors
by McMinnies, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
Leicester: The Reprint Society. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1960. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Some shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ with slight loss to spine extremities and tape repairs and foxing to reverse, corners lightly bumped, marker pen initials to inside front cover, fly shadows to endpapers, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Black boards quarter bound red with gilt lettering to spine, top edge black. Good reading copy, no names inside. DJ artwork uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 576 pages; Cold war thriller set behind the Iron Curtain. Milly Purdoe, the wife of a member of the British Mission, newly arrived in an East European country becomes involved with spies, black marketeers and impoverished aristocrats. .
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- Seller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 30528
- Title
- The Visitors
- Author
- McMinnies, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- Leicester
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Book Club Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thrillers;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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