The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.
by DIBDIN, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394500652
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500652
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1978. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth. About fine in fine dust jacket, with a light crease to the bottom front flap. The author's first book.
Synopsis
Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking , which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal , which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17359
- Title
- The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.
- Author
- DIBDIN, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394500652
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500652
- Publisher
- Pantheon,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1978.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime Fiction; Fiction;
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