Picador., 2009-11-06. 1st. Edn, 4th. Imp.. Paperback. F/F/ND. Box X18 SOFTBACK ""NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 4th. with number line.* Date of Publication: 2009* Publisher: Picador* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing four men and a goat. Black & maroon titles to spine & similar with white to face. No shelf wear to edges, or to head or tail of spine. No visible marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE. * Illustrations: Single black and white line drawing within text.* Pages: 273 pp. text. vii pp. acknowledgements, bibliography, advertisement and blank page at rear.* Description:- This true story is about what happened when a small group of men ? highly placed within the United States military, the government, and intelligence services ? began believing in very strange things. Defying all known military practice ? and indeed the laws of physics ? they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them They were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. *This is a FINE copy of the 1st thus. 4th. imp, with no visible faults.* 0

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10173
Title: The Men Who Stare At Goats.
Author: Ronson., Jon
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - F/F/ND
Edition: 1st. Edn, 4th. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0330507702
ISBN 13: 9780330507707
Publisher: Picador.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2009-11-06
Pages: 280
X weight: g

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