The Ways of the World: Hardcover - 2013

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Bantam Press.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, slight marks to edges and to front board. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing James Maxted looking through a telescope, red and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (orange brown). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, some age to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: A two page b/w line drawn map of Paris in 1919 at front.* Pages: 404 pp. text. ii pp. author?s notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: 1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world's nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. They have been joined by a horde of journalists, spies and opportunists who have also gathered in the city. Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the political delegation, falls from the roof of his mistress's apartment building in unexplained circumstances. A thrilling espionage story set in Paris after the First World War, full of classic Goddard double crosses and triple twists. Sir Henry's son, ex Royal Flying Corps ace James 'Max' Maxted, resolves to find out how and why his father died - even if this means disturbing the impression of harmonious calm which the negotiating teams have worked so hard to maintain.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. reduced by dust jacket wear to VG. Now in protective jacket.*