Service of All the Dead
by Colin Dexter
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980
First US Edition (stated)
First Printing
Hardcover. 256 pages. 5-1/8" x 8".
Very good in very good, unclipped ($9.95) dust jacket.
Two small stains to side edge of page block with bleeding onto margins of pp. 120, 122 & 124. Erasure marks to front end paper. Otherwise, interior clean & unmarked. A few pages with creased corners. Binding firm & square. Covers have mild softening to spine ends; a couple of faint spots to front board. Dust jacket has light rubbing along edges & at corners; faint crease along spine; mild soiling & toning to spine & back panel. DJ comes protected by new, archival cover.
An attractive copy of the first US edition of Dexter's fourth Morse novel. A nice addition to your collection or as a gift.
Ships well-packed in a box.