Swan Dive
by Jeremiah Healy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333483871
- ISBN 13
- 9780333483879
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1st printing of 1st UK edition; inscribed by author. Very Good hardcover in Very Good DJ. Olive green boards, gilt titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; light dust spotting on text block edges; author's full signature on title page and inscribed below 'To Jed, | Riddle: What's the | opposite of the gift that | keeps on giving? Answer: | The gift you already | gave! Thanks again | for everything, | Jerry | Christmas, | 1988'; clean interior with slight general age darkening. DJ is bright, clean and complete; lightly scuffed. Inscription was to Jed Mattes, noted literary agent. 8vo, 216 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18963
- Title
- Swan Dive
- Author
- Jeremiah Healy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333483871
- ISBN 13
- 9780333483879
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE, COLLECTABLE, MURDER, POLICE, CRIME, DETECTIVES, WHODUNIT, MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON, NEW ENGLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Mystery;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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