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Forty Words for Sorrow [Signed First Printing]
by Blunt, Giles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679310576
- ISBN 13
- 9780679310570
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Random House Canada, 2000. Cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dustjacket, gilt title, (9.5 x 6.5 inches), 326 pages. First Edition/First Printing (with "1" on publisher's number line). The Canadian printing is the true first edition preceding the U.S. and U.K. printings. SIGNED by author on title page. The author's second book introducing Detective John Cardinal. An exceptionally clean, tight copy in like unclipped jacket, collector fine condition. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.
Synopsis
Forty Words for Sorrow is a crime novel from Canadian novelist Giles Blunt, and the first to feature his protagonists John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Blunt had previous published one other novel, Cold Eye, but this was his first crime novel, and the first to be a critical and commercial success. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2001.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Forty Words for Sorrow [Signed First Printing]
- Author
- Blunt, Giles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679310576
- ISBN 13
- 9780679310570
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery & Crime
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