221 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with silver lettering to spine over light blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When loner Mark Kessler, trying to prevent the slaughter of birds in a wildlife sanctuary, kills a man, he experiences an unexpected pleasure in killing that drives him finally to retreat beneath the ice-covered water of Long Island's Great South Bay. Condition: Small bumped at heal edge else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BOOKS003470
Title: the Ice Cathedral
Author: George Leonard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
ISBN 10: 067149676X
ISBN 13: 9780671496760
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1984
Keywords: MYSTERY
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;
Size: Octavo

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