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Rumpelstiltskin.
by Ed McBain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG++/VG++/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON BCA EDITION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982 (1981).* Publisher: B.C.A.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. Very slight fade to top and bottom edges. No bumps, rubs, shelf wear or marks. No other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a golden disc with a girls face at the centre surmounted by a cartoon representing Rumpelstiltskin. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Red & black titles to face and to slightly faded spine. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, considerable tanning throughout especially to page margins and edges, some marks to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: NONE. * Pages: 240 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: This is the second of a new series of Ed McBain novels about Matthew Hope. Each bears the title of a famous fairy-tale. The first was Goldilocks, to which Rumpelstiltskin is a startling enthralling successor. Matthew Hope is a successful attorney and Vicky Miller is a singer making a come-back. Miller has designs on Vicky but is surprised when she falls for him to the extent that she wants to prevent him from leaving when he tries to go early in the morning. The reason becomes clear when a policeman calls at his law office only a few hours later. He now knew how right she had been to be afraid…* A VG copy with considerable tanning in a VG++ dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10364
- Title
- Rumpelstiltskin.
- Author
- Ed McBain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG++/VG++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, Reprint.
- Publisher
- BCA
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 242
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Novel, Fiction, Crime, Thriller.
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- New
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- Edges
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- VG
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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