MCCALL SMITH, ALEXANDER (1948)

 

MCCALL SMITH, ALEXANDER (1948)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, 2005

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MCCALL SMITH, ALEXANDER (1948)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Pantheon Books, New York. 2005. First American hardcover edition. First printing [has complete number line]. Hardbound. Half paper covered boards with decorated pastdown and endpapers. With lavender illustrated not price clipped dusjacket. 235 pp.+ adverts at rear. 14¾ x 21¾ x 2¼ cm. 410 gr. Jacket design by Barrie Tullet. ISBN-10 '0375423877. ISBN-13 978037542371. Author photograph by Chris Watt. Jacket photograph by Sandy Grant. Does not specify first American edition, as that was a soft cover book, the true 1st was published by Polygon in Scotland in 1998. The true first american edition was published by Anchor Books in 2002. That first edition was a paperback original in the U.S. This edition came out in 2005, seven years after the original publication in the USA. With a new introduction by the author. The first book in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series, set in Botswana featuring Precious Ramotswe.

A pristine unread copy. Near Fine in like dust jacket.

Booknumber: 20133

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