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Blow Your House Down. (Signed).
by Barker, Pat
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984., 1984. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED, by the author. Octavo, pp. [10], 170. Publishers' iron grey quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and matching paper-covered boards, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips and corners very slightly rubbed; contents clean and bright with bold signature of the Author, without dedication, to title page in blue ink. Jacket slightly rubbed to edge with small nick to rear flap and rectangular "ghost" mark next to titles (presumably where a price label has been removed). A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Novel set in a city in the North of England, where a murderer stalks sex workers. An excellent signed copy of only the author's second novel.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8801
- Title
- Blow Your House Down. (Signed).
- Author
- Barker, Pat
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984.
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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