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Colour Scheme
by Ngaio Marsh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1943 Missing dust jacket. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Brown publisher's cloth with embossed title on front cover, gilt title on spine. Publisher's red top stain to top edge of text block. Not a book club edition.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Colour Scheme is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943. The novel takes place in New Zealand during World War II. Alleyn is working for military intelligence and is assigned to counterespionage. The plot involves suspected Nazi activity at a hot springs resort on the New Zealand coast. Alleyn incognito and going by the name Septimus Falls, must solve a gruesome murder in order to expose the spies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Genesee Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101274
- Title
- Colour Scheme
- Author
- Ngaio Marsh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1943
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About the Seller
Genesee Books
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Rochester, New York
About Genesee Books
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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