London: Collins Crime Club, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering. A neat former owner's ticket to the front paste-down, foxing to the page block edges and the early/late pages of the book, about VG in like D/W foxed to the back panel and with a closed tear and associated crease at the left hand edge of the spine at the base.

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Singing in the Shrouds is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twentieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1959.

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Bookseller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA. (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 355490717440
Title: Singing in the Shrouds
Author: MARSH NGAIO
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used
Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins Crime Club
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1959

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...