Knots and Crosses

Rankin, Ian

ISBN 10: 0385243073 / ISBN 13: 9780385243070

Published by Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1987

About this Item

"First edition in the United States of America." Manilla library pocket glued to FFE, and a bar code tag glued to copyright page. Top and bottom pages also bear library rubber stampings, though those are blessedly faint. Outer edges of DJ flaps are noticeably thin where they were laboriously freed from being glued to insides of boards. Roughness of pastedowns in vertical strips reveals where this gluing once held sway. DJ not price clipped; original $12.95 price showing. DJ spine orange title lettering considerably sun-faded. Spine has a noticeable 3/16ths-inch lean. All that said, this copy is in better-than-usual condition for a library survivor; still tightly bound with virtually no wear to boards and with the white text block unmarked. Author's first "Rebus" novel, his second opus only to "The Flood," Polygon, 1986. Also listing a slightly smaller copy which was chopped and laminated. This one is full original size, with a nice dust jacket now protected in mylar. 182. pp. Reduced from $60. Bookseller Inventory # 001360

Bibliographic Details

Title: Knots and Crosses

Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y.

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition:Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

In Edinburgh, Detective Rebus must put together conflicting clues to find a psychopathic killer and finds his own life threatened

About the Author:

Ian Rankin is a worldwide #1 bestselling writer and has won an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.