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Fine / Near Fine. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 9 1/2" tall; 276 pages, purple boards with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and bindings tight, paper white. In a near fine, clean, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price.
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Used Very Good. Flat signed by T. F. Banks. This is a marked first edition with full number line or stated edition on copyright page. Dust Jacket is wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.
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As New in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover As New with a VG + Jacket. Jacket is clean and bright with a touch of edgewear. A British mystery set in Regency London, June 1815, and a murderer is afoot but the Bow Street Runners need help in catching him/her. 276 pages. 2001, Delacorte Press/Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A. And Canada. ISBN 0385335717 9780385335713 CA.
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Like New in Like New jacket. Size: 9x6x1; A nice hardcover in a protective Mylar sleeve with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book First edition, October 2001, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first mystery. This historical mystery is set in Regency London. An ELLIS AWARD NOMINEE and a SPOTTED OWL AWARD NOMINEE. "Canadian author Banks depicts a Regency London as grimly fascinating as Dickens's Victorian London in this neatly plotted historical introducing Bow Street constable Henry Morton. When the body of Halbert Glendinning, a gentleman of impeccable character, turns up one night in a hackney cab with no driver in Claridge Square, it appears he choked to death on his own vomit. Fearing foul play, the dead man's fianc? e hires Morton to investigate. Morton himself suspects poison, but in the early days of forensics such a verdict is difficult to establish. The constable's search for answers takes him from the town houses of the wellborn to the notorious brothels and gin-shops of Spitalfields. What he finds leads him not just to question the mode of Glendinning's death but to uncover a web of deceit and corruption that endangers his own life and reaches far beyond the scope of his original commission. The author brings his characters to life in dialogue both natural and evocative of the period, while the relationship between Morton and his servant, Wilkes, is as enjoyable as that between Margery Allingham's Campion and Lugg. In addition to the small details, Banks captures the complex moral tenor of the time on a variety of social levels (Morton's landlady is appalled to discover she's been renting rooms to a "horney"). Other Regency mysteries may feature historical personages such as Jane Austen or Beau Brummel as detectives, but the fictional Henry Morton shines in his debut without benefit of an established identity." [Publishers Weekly]
