THE QUARRY
by Duerrenmatt, Friedrich
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Greenwich: CT: New York Graphic Society, 1961. 1st. U.S edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket, shows chipping at top and bottom of spine, else, tight and bright copy, $3.50 price intact. Police chief inspector Baerlach has just undergone surgery when his friend and doctor, Hugentobler, thinks he recognizes one of his own colleagues on a LIFE Magazine picture. The article is about Dr. Neyle, a Nazi doctor who practiced surgery without anesthesia in the extermination camps. This Dr. Neyle could now be the eminent owner of a private clinic for wealthy people in Zurich, Switzerland. Baerlach convinces his friend to transfer him in that clinic under a false name. How will Baerlach, who is still too weak to leave his bed, be able to unmask the evil doctor?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015165
- Title
- THE QUARRY
- Author
- Duerrenmatt, Friedrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New York Graphic Society
- Place of Publication
- Greenwich: CT
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Switzerland
- Bookseller catalogs
- SWITZERLAND;
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About the Seller
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About Murder By The Book
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- 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...
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