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Death of a Lake
by Upfield, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Heinemann. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Previous owner's contemporary inscription. Jacket lightly edge worn, a few light chips, price clipped; Original black boards, spine gilt; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 226 pages; An excellent copy .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Haymes & Co.
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B6115
- Title
- Death of a Lake
- Author
- Upfield, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Detective Fiction, Modern First, Australian Literature
Terms of Sale
Haymes & Co.
Al l books are sold as complete or as otherwise described. Any item found to be not as described may be returned within 7 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Haymes & Co.
Biblio member since 2022
Kingscliff, New South Wales
About Haymes & Co.
Haymes & Co. are 6th generation antiquarian booksellers. Our foundations trace back to Rotterdam, Holland, in the early 19th century.
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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