DEATH-WATCH
John Dickson Carr
From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since January 11, 2000
Quantity: 1From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since January 11, 2000
Quantity: 1About this Item
First impression of the second edition [cheap edition]. The book was originally published in 1935. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with black titles to spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Rear board slightly faded. No inscriptions. Spine slightly slanted. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 6s. net. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. 2cm closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Very small loss and rubbing to head and tail of spine of dustwrapper. Rear panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Front panel of dustwrapper bright. ***190mm x 130mm. 127 pages. *** 'A man murdered with the hand of a clock, stabbed through the back of his neck as he goes up a staircase in the dark. This is the beginning of this outstanding Dr. Fell detective story, in which that corpulent scholar must use his wits on subjects that included clockmaking and the Spanish Inquisition. ***Johannus Carver, clockmaker by hobby, had strange guests at his house in Lincoln's Inns Fields. When he had just completed a large steel stable-clock for Sir Edwin Paull's country house, and gilded it with slow-drying paint, someone stole off the hands. On the next night the long arrow-headed minute hand was found driven into the body of an unknown man - a tramp who had tried to burgle the house, some of them said, until Chief Inspector Hadley identified him in a way that put every member of the household under suspicion.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the second edition, extremely hard to find in the original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 6395
Bibliographic Details
Title: DEATH-WATCH
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: Second Edition
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