Assault on a Queen Hardcover - 1960

C6b: Simon and Schuster. Very Good. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1959. 244 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Jack Finney on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. Christopher Macartney-Filgate DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (closed tear present to the heel of the spine; lightly chipped present to the top left right corner of the front panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Jack Finney's tale of high-seas robbery. Basis for the film featuring Frank Sinatra as the leader of a group of thieves trying to rob the Queen Mary with a restored German sub. Rod Serling wrote the script for the 1966 film adaptation. 'We carry twelve live torpedoes, Captain...And those torpedoes WILL BE FIRED - unless you do precisely what we tell you...' Five adventurous men and one woman plan the most fantastic crime of the century...a crime unparalleled in daring and ingenuity...with a fortune for each of them as the pay-off. From the time the U-19 - a forty-year-old World War I submarine - is raised from the sea-bed until its actual assult on the Queen Mary, this unique novel makes on sustained compulsive assault on the readers nerves. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .