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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very good plus. Book: lower front corner of binding is lightly bumped; slight musty smell. Jacket in new mylar protector; slight wrinkling to tail of spine; jacket flaps a little toned. Flat signed on title page by Gardner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$381.02 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST U.S. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Collector's Edition, 'bound in genuine leather'. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.253; [1]. Printed on acid-neutral archival paper, with colour frontispiece illustration. Publisher's full dark red hide, decoratively blocked in gilt, illustrated endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Absolutely fine. With publisher's loose decorative bookplate as called for. The bibliographer's copy, signed on plate ('Jack' bulldog paperweight not included). A stand-alone volume, not to be confused with the later Easton Press collected works (2005). Books were sold exclusively through the Easton Press via subscription and are long-since sold out. Copies on the used market are genuinely scarce. Gilbert A5b (6).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom