- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United KingdomHenry Pordes Books Ltd
AbeBooks seller since February 14, 2007
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 401.38
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Hardcover 8vo in red cloth with silver lettering to spine, in dust jacket. In very good condition, with some chipping to DJ spine ends and corners esp. to foot of spine, small mug ring on front of DJ, rubbing to front and spine of DJ, some chipping/ damage to front fore-edge of DJ, edge wear to boards, binding slightly cocked, cracking to rear hinge, toning at front hings, internally clean and bright with no foxing. Signed 'best wishes,' and dated May 1970 by the author on the ffep. A very good example of a signed first US edition of this, the third novel in Ruth Rendell's popular Inspector Wexford series.
Seller Inventory # 038244
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Wolf to the Slaughter
- Author
- Rendell, Ruth
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1968
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo
Henry Pordes Books Ltd
London, United Kingdom
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One of the most famous and last surviving bookshops on Charing Cross Rd, Henry Pordes Books has been a favorite among book lovers for over thirty years. The shop stocks a broad and eclectic range of books, from modern firsts, early classics - including Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Wilde, Carroll, the Brontë sisters, Barrie, George Eliot and more - early and fine editions of major twentieth-century publishing ‘institutions’ such as Harry Potter, James Bond and the novels of Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse, Graham Greene and Terry Pratchett, and rare antiquarian texts in the fields of medicine, science, sport, travel, history, religion, philosophy and Italian and French literature, to modern books on art, design, fashion, photography, architecture, natural history, archaeology, religion, mythology, folklore, cooking, drink, gardening, erotica, travel and children’s books. …
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Henry Pordes Books Ltd
United Kingdom
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