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BILL FOR THE USE OF A BODY.** [3rd Julian Day novel.] Hardback. -

by WHEATLEY**, DENNIS:

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Printed in Great Britain on Antique Wove paper by The Anchor Press,Ltd.,in Tiptree,Essex.] NFINE/VG-. Neat, handwritten inked Christian name+date (1964) at top inner corner of front free endpaper and no price-clip (16s net) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Fratini,illustrated front panel and spine/backstrip and rear panel; with white lettering to front+spine; withnegligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Despite this,dw/dj is internally strengthened with approx. 1" wide brown paper adhesive strips across head+foot of spine /backstrip - no faults or damage noted to those areas.Some silverfish (?) nibbling to top edge of front inner flap and lower corner tip of same, similarly to rear inner flap along with that flap's vertical edge.Flap is still in situ despite the whole length being nearly completely nibbled.Top edges with very light toning and faint sporadic foxing/spotting,fore- edges similar; contents bright,tight and clean - text body virtually foxing-free - minimal foxing/ spotting to page edges - no dog-earreading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,red+ black dichromatic cloth boards/covers with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate red+white regional maps (Central Japan and Hong Kong respectively) illustrated eps+pastedowns,both hinges solid and sound without any splits,tears or cracking; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to boards/ covers - no nicks,tears splits or fraying present.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-221pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters,plus [unpaginated] publisher's blurb/story precis to half-title,title page,a dedication, contents list/table and reverse of rear page with publisher advert for other author's other published languages. Third and final Julian Day crime novel,following on from 'The Quest of Julian Day' (1939) and 'The Sword of Fate' (1941). Set in the period December,1942 - March,1964.The continuation and final Julian Day crime novels.Wheatley had considered one more to be written,but it never was. When Dennis Wheatley flew off to tour the Far East anyone could have foretold that he would soon be entertaining his vast public with a gripping tale set in the flamboyant Orient.Here is the first fruit of his thirty-thousand-mile journey.The opening of the story is macabre: a Japanese father regarding the head of his son which had been sent to him in a box. Of that,the lovely half-English,half-Chinese Merri Sang knew nothing, neither did Julian Day nor Bill Urata,both of whom were in love with her, but the father's thirst for revenge brought all three of them into deadly peril. The story moves swiftly to Hong Kong as it is today,but the reader is temporarily carried back to those terrible days when the beautiful island was invaded by the Japanese – who, in many cases,treated their prisoners with appalling barbarity. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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