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Poodle Springs
by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399134824
- ISBN 13
- 9780399134821
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing hardback, 1989, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch faded to spine and upper edges; boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unopened; no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.
Synopsis
Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title "The Poodle Springs Story", were subsequently published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962), a collection of letter excerpts and miscellaneous unpublished writings. On the occasion of the centenary of Chandler's birth, crime writer Robert B.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202157
- Title
- Poodle Springs
- Author
- Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399134824
- ISBN 13
- 9780399134821
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam’s Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Crime;
Terms of Sale
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Hall of Books
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Oswestry, Shropshire
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Glossary
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- 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.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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