London: Michael Joseph. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Dark Rose coloured cloth boards with bright gilt titling/logo to the spine, and the initials CFS entwined in gilt on the bottom front corner of the front board. In the original publisher's decorated dustjacket, illustrated by Biro. The dustjacket is Not price clipped. The boards have a light 'crease' line running down the centre of the spine - due to a single read of the book. There is also a very very slight 'discolouration'/'bumping' to the very edges of the boards - negligible. The dustjacket has a couple of very small closed chips/tears all of which are now neatly repaired to the reverse of the d/j with clear archive tape, o/w the d/j is complete. There is a little foxing (brown spots) & a very few light marks mainly to the rear d/j cover, but the d/j is generally very clean, now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Very Good. The page fore-edges are slightly browned. The top edge is rose-coloured. Decorated endpapers. NO Inscriptions or Marks. 216 pp. Overall a Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. Originally published in 1930, this is a crime novel with socialogical & psychological insights into the 'ordinary man' who commits murder. Classic crime from the pen of the Author who wrote the wonderful 'Hornblower' series. "Three advertising men decide to kill a colleague to avoid dismissal and the grim prospect of joblessness. Their leader acquires a taste for crime, but eventually gets his comeuppance...." ..... Although written in the 1930s - Could be a tale of today! ; Greenwich Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Bookseller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 111298
Title: Plain Murder . (Greenwich Edition)
Author: Forester, C. S
Illustrator: Biro (Dustjacket & Endpapers)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1975
Keywords: Plain Murder; C. S. Forester; Hornblower Series;, Greenwich Edition; Three Advertising Men Decide To Kill A Colleague To , Avoid Dismissal And The Grim Prospect Of Joblessness;, Crime Fiction; Biro Illustrated Dustjacket And Endpapers.
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction; Eng Lit, Lit Crit & Shakespeare;

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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books

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Retired Member of the P.B.F.A, and the WBA. In business for 42+ years to date, mainly working from home nowadays, and formerly exhibiting at Major London Book Fairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! View by Appointment ONLY Please, as I may be unavailable on the day you call. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately no wheelchair access. Currently only working part-time.

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O/W: An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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