- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United KingdomJames M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
AbeBooks seller since March 17, 1999
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 544.76
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced £16.99 to the inside flap. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Publisher's blue boards with silver lettering to the spine. A fine copy (pages tanned due to the poor quality of paper used) in like dustwrapper. ISBN: 0 7472 1106 X. Printing number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Signed and inscribed by the Author to the half-title page: "This is especially for/ Peter Haining/ who named names so/ that Fidelma was born!/ Every good wish/ Peter Tremayne/ Sept. 1994". Very uncommon with these attributes. The first Sister Fidelma mystery set at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD. Peter Haining was an author and editor and friend of Tremayne who encouraged him to publish the Sister Fidelma mysteries and provided the name for the main character. Further photographs available upon request.
Seller Inventory # 355490725864
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Absolution by Murder
- Author
- Tremayne, Peter
- Publisher
- Headline, London
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Edition
- First Edition.
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
LEICESTER, United Kingdom
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James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
United Kingdom
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James M Pickard, 21 Grenfell Road, Leicester, LE2 2PA, The United Kingdom. Tel: 0116 2707169. E-mail: JPRAREBOOK@aol.com.
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