FALSE FRONT.
by MEYER, LAWRENCE:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE-./FINE-.
- ISBN 10
- 0002312239
- ISBN 13
- 9780002312233
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A title from the Collins Crime Club imprint/ series.FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn,price-clip to dw/dj,but a publisher's small,gold circular adhesive price-label still in situ to dw/dj's front inner flap.Bright, crisp,clean,colour photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,b/w rear panel with author's other listed works/ titles; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Light bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/ backstrip and similar to top edges of dw/dj. Book has a slight lean.Top edge lightly aged/toned with some light, minimal,sporadic foxing,fore-edges brighter but lightly marked/ grubbed; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tipss - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's sharp-cornered, bright,crisp and clean,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters and Collins Crime Club logo to spine/backstrip,and near immaculate,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-238pp [paginated] includes 29 chapter; ,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication.
Author's 2nd novel.
Lawrence Mayer's first novel,'A Capitol Crime', was warmly welcomed. In 'False Front' he gives his readers another fast,furious chase down the hidden corridors of Washington power.
Meyer,a journalist for 13 years (then 1979),working for the Times Herald-Record and the Louisville Times before going to the Washington Post,for which he covered the first 'Watergate' break-in trial,the Senate Watergate hearings,and susbsequent impeachment activities.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- FALSE FRONT.
- Author
- MEYER, LAWRENCE:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE-.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE-.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002312239
- ISBN 13
- 9780002312233
- Publisher
- LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.,1979
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1979
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0002312239.US_espionage_journalist_fiction.Washington Post_Watergate_impeachment.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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