Cell 2455 Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story
by Chessman, Caryl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co.. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1956. No signatures. Dust stains and moderate foxing and spotting to page edges. A couple of 1 1/2" tears and several 1/2" chips in edges of dust wrapper. Moderate adhesive tape stains on verso of dust wrapper. Moderate stain on front panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 311 pages. Black cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Front panel of dust wrapper has quotes from American press reviews of the earlier US edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4895
- Title
- Cell 2455 Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story
- Author
- Chessman, Caryl
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Italy
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.