Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 29th and final book in Van Wyck Mason's long-running spy-thriller series featuring G-2's Colonel Hugh North, this time trying to secure a vital communications link in Tangiers on the "hot line" connecting Russia and the U.S. until a maverick, erratic sputnik with an illegal H-bomb warhead can be brought under control. Red Chinese and Albanian agents are believed to be targetting the Tangiers relay station. Remnants of a price sticker on the inside front cover, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a lightly age-tanned spine and edges, with a small stain at the botom of the spine; a quarter-inch tear on the top edge of the back panel, other slight surface and edgewear but 99% whole with no significant flaws. Not price-clipped. Collectable.

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004762
Title: THE DEADLY ORBIT MISSION
Author: Van Wyck Mason, F. (Francis)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Publisher: Doubleday & Co.
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1968
Keywords: SPY, FIRST EDITION, COLONEL NORTH, INTRIGUE, COLD WAR, TANGIERS
Bookseller catalogs: Spy; Intrigue; Europe;

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