Buy this book on-line MARSTON**, EDWARD : SLAUGHTER in the SAPPERTON TUNNELLONDON.ALLINSON & BUSBY LIMITED,2020. ISBN 9780749026714.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Stated First Edition.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour pictorial artwork illustrated front of dw/dj,with capitalised,light beige-lettered title+author name,and advertising/credit; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title as front,capitalised,outlined khaki-lettered author name,a thumbnail black railway carriage illlustration,publisher's light beige colophon to foot of same,rear panel with critic's reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners,miniscule creasing to head of spine and along top edges - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine,and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-350pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with first page of a double-page publisher's advertisement for authors previous titles to its reverse,and the reverse of the 2nd page of same critics' reviews,a title pages,and to the rear a potted note of author's other genre series. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable, and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of other detracting faults.
Spring,1862. A goods train speeds through the Sapperton Tunnel,but disaster strikes before it can reach the other end as it collides with an unusual blockage on the line: seven sheep penned onto the tracks. Specially requested to investigate the carnage in Gloucestershire, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are confronted with a bizarre case unlike anything they've encountered before. Stephen Rydall,a director of the Great Western Railway,is convinced that the tragedy is a personal attack on him and fears for the safety of his shepherd,missing since the incident. Rydall has enemies: a churlish squire,the scheming principal of the Royal agricultural College and a local villain,always one step ahead of the law.But,as Colbeck discovers, there's a prime suspect much closer to Rydall's own home. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MARSTON**, EDWARD : SLAUGHTER in the SAPPERTON TUNNEL. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, livres illustrées, incunabula, antiquarian books and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |