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Gallows Thief
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060082739
- ISBN 13
- 9780060082734
- Seller
-
Frankfort, Kentucky, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harper, 2002-04-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x0. stated 1st American edition with full number line, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cocked, corners bumped, corner crease on inner dust jacket flap, from a private collection, NOT an ex-library copy, NOT remainder copy, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders
Synopsis
Gallows Thief (2001) is a mystery novel by Bernard Cornwell set in London in the year 1817, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop. Rider Sandman, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, is hired as an investigator as a formality to rubber-stamp the death sentence of a condemned murderer. Instead, he discovers a conspiracy to conceal the real killer. In the slang of the time, a “gallows thief,” (also a “crap prig”) is a person who prevents the hanging of an innocent person.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pink Casa Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60512
- Title
- Gallows Thief
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060082739
- ISBN 13
- 9780060082734
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002-04-01
- Size
- 8x6x0
- X weight
- 18 oz
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pink Casa Antiques
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Frankfort, Kentucky
About Pink Casa Antiques
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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.
- Remainder
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