Isbn: 9780316845113 - Line of Duty (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 292 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Shaft successes behind him, Tidyman has written a somewhat more seriously intentioned novel of Cleveland detectives during an all too body-filled period of two or three days -- hard rain, black sky, a cold wind coming down off Lake Erie, and a killer cop as a hit man for the local Mafia. The reader is swept from scene to bleak scene of violence, sinister pizza parlors, bars, hijackings, gunnings, rapes with plenty of police procedure. Detective James Dempsey, aging, balding, divorced by a frigid wife who boils like a screaming kettle whenever he tries to visit his kids, is an empty man who sells his soul to the big hoods and plans to start over in South America when his nest egg outweighs his leaden heart. But the department has finally started looking into the six deaths for which he's responsible. While the Mafia steps up its truck heists, Dempsey gets paid to rub out a driver-stoolie. He's also into some mad athletics with a throaty singer. His demise brings fair irony -- strong enough for a flick -- but Tidyman's fake grim humor never rises above the crime entertainment level even if he has something more ambitious in mind. Still it might do well. Condition: Corners gently bumped, small tape stain to front paste down. Jacket lightly soiled, 2 inch by 1 inch jagged tear to spine head extending to back else very good in like jacket.…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Officer James Dempsey is what any police force fears most: a killer copy for hire. Dempsey kills for pay and doctors the reports. Nobody asks questions. But one report has too many stray bullets and the police start hunting down a traitor in their midst. This follows Cleveland's police force through a city on the verge of explosion. Ethnic neighborhoods cry for law and order while a ghetto smolders. A sniper plays God by murdering the wicked. The mob hijacks trucks with an efficiency that baffles detectives. For the police from the flatfoot to the lab man, it's all in the line of duty. But Dempsey, the perfect hit man, isn't on the blotter.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: red cloth with silver spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Brown endpapers. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 292 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Good-Very Good. First Edition. First edition, so stated, 10/74. Near fine in dust jacket, moderately soiled at rear panel, light wear, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Small publishers line at bottom of pages. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. Ratzkin, Lawrence (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($6.95), a closed tear at the top edge of the spine, a few spots of soiling throughout. Red cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. From the author of Shaft, a crime thriller about James Dempsey, a killer cop for hire, and his work for the Cleveland police department during a period of racial tensions.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (literature, Fiction, Drama, Crime).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0316845116. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with brown stains on spine, minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean red cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with blank dark brown endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 292 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (6.95 on front inside flap), has one tiny v-shaped chip at top rear panel edge, a few tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Line of Duty follows Cleveland's police force through a city on the verge of explosion. Scared ethnic neighborhoods cry for law and order while a sprawling ghetto smolders. A sniper play God by murdering the wicked. The mob hijacks trucks with an efficiency that baffles detectives as City Hall clamors for results. A terrific crime story from the author of SHAFT.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 292 pages. First Edition. Heartwarming story of killer cop for hire in Cleveland. Tidyman is the author of Shaft. Fine in a fine dustjacket with tiny chip at one corner.

Hardcover. Condition: FINE CONDITION. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE DUST JACKET. First Edition, First Printing. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //NOT PRICECLIPPED//NEW MYLAR COVER//from the creator of Shaft.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to Shirley Jackson's biographer, Judy Oppenheimer Loth: "For Judy Loth, in the line of love. Ernest." The recipient had a continuing relationship with Tidyman, and was the dedicatee of Tidyman's final Shaft novel, *The Last Shaft*. One of Tidyman's few non-Shaft titles, about a killer cop in Cleveland.…