Garden City, NY:: Crime Club / Doubleday,, 1951.. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (rather severe toning to the pages, but otherwise tight and clean).. First printing. A novel of international intrigue, betrayal and danger, featuring Peter Manning, who arrived in New York City under a false passport with instructions to meet a fellow agent at the reading room of the New York Public Library, only to be kidnapped and involved in a chase for his life - and for freedom for his small country. The third crime novel ( fourth book)by this New York City writer, best known as the author of "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." 187 pp.
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Seller: Books Do Furnish A Room, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stabdard ex-library flaws, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket moderately worn. Binding square & firm. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 116476
Seller: Avant Retro, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Jacket. First Edition. 1951 1st ed stated. In unclipped Jacket. A collectible / giftable copy. Jacket is unchipped with original $2.50 price intact there is fading to the light green color along the spine but all the lettering to spine is fresh and bright. . Front Panel nice and fresh. Book is about fine with no names or marking and some light tanning to pages. Apart from the loss of color to spine a very nearly new copy. -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors., Seller Inventory # 151031003