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The West Pier; Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse; Unknown Assailant [Gorse Trilogy, complete]
by Hamilton, Patrick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable, 1951. Hamilton's last books, a trilogy about the "abominable Gorse", a young sociopath & conman in England between the wars and his various victims; delightfully cynical. S&G was the loose basis for the 1987 ITV series The Charmer. West Pier is dated 1951; Stimpson & Gorse 1953; Unknown Assailant 1955. Each is the first edition (first printing), stating "first published" with the year, noting no later printings. Small blue hardcovers, silver titling; in jackets, as pictured. Light wear & some fading to books, corners rubbed & lightly bumped; handsome bookplate inside front covers of WP and UA; S&G has "Hamilton" inked on the free endsheet, some foxing; each book has a bookseller's label; jackets a bit rubbed with a few short tears & associated creasing, light chipping; the jacket of S&G is fair only, with rather more severe chipping, some scuffing damage, and internal foxing; all prices are intact; pages of S&G and UA are tanned. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo. Set.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- t0687os
- Title
- The West Pier; Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse; Unknown Assailant [Gorse Trilogy, complete]
- Author
- Hamilton, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Keywords
- Fiction, Crime Fiction, Con Men, Fraud, Deceit, Psychological Novels
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...