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Price: US$355.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Book Club issue of the first American edition. 8vo. 256pp. Quarter black cloth with grey sides, lettered in gold at the spine and with the author's facsimile signature gold-stamped to the base of the upper board (the correct first edition binding is red backstrip cloth, not black). Publisher's orange top edge stain, very slightly faded. A narrow trace of light toning to the free endpapers and a little light spotting to the fore edge. Retail price sticker to the tip of the front free endpaper (which I have not attempted to remove). A very good copy in the later state Book Club issue dust wrapper, repeating the original design, but with four quotes to the rear panel instead of three, no price printed to the head of the front flap, but the base of the flap clipped (where the original Book Club identifier should be found). Rear flap printed in black instead of black and red, and here omitting the imprint details. A very good copy of the Book Club issue of the first American edition - not in itself uncommon and particularly desirable, but this copy considerably enhanced by the presence of a title-specific bookplate signed by the author and pasted to the front free endpaper. The author's third novel, winner of multiple awards including the 1963 Gold Dagger, the 1965 Edgar Award, and the 2005 'Dagger of Daggers'.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$625.84 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: London/Taiwan/New York: Coward McCann/Hodder and Stoughton/Viking, 1968 - 1980 - 1991 - 1996 - 2003. First Editions, First Printings except for A Small Town In Germany, which is a Taiwanese piracy. Fine copies in (near) fine dustwrappers with the following points: A Small Town In Germany with previous owners inscription on front free endpaper; The Secret Pilgrim price-cut; The Tailor an Ameican first; Absolute Friends signed by the author on the title page. The copies of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Our Game shown in the pictures have been sold. These books part of our Catalogue 11: Crime, Spy, Mystery, Adventure, War and Pulp Fiction, a copy of which you can download at ygrbooks. Please note that due to size and weight of this collection, we will have to charge additional postage.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland