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Lot 270:
Description
A collection of contemporary fiction and non-fiction books in both hardcover and paperback formats. The assortment includes a series of crime novels by Stuart Pawson, with titles such as Laughing Boy, Grief Encounters, Gin O Clock, The Mushroom Man, The Judas Sheep, Limestone Cowboy, and Last Reminder. Hardcover volumes include The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, Vital Organs by Suzie Edge, Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy, and The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen. A large Patricia Cornwell omnibus is present, containing the novels Postmortem, Body of Evidence, and All That Remains, alongside her paperback title Flesh and Blood. Other authors represented include Lee Child, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, Agatha Christie, Anne McCaffrey, and Simon Green. Non-fiction is represented by an AA-published Book of British Villages. The collection features a mix of publisher cloth with dust jackets, pictorial boards, and mass-market paperback wrappers. Most volumes are in octavo format.
Condition report:
The collection shows signs of previous use and storage wear. Paperbacks frequently exhibit spine creasing, edge wear, and some tanning to the page edges. Hardcover volumes and their respective dust jackets show minor bumping to the corners, light rubbing to the extremities, and occasional surface scratching. Some volumes show evidence of shelf wear to the base of the spines. Overall condition is fair to good.
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