Isbn: 9780575043725 - Toxic Shock (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Rare First British Edition. Precedes US publication. Published in the US under the title Blood Shot. Signed and inscribed: "Philadelphia/October 1989/Beth/Good Wishes to a/good lady/Sara Paretsky" on the FULL title page. Fine book in Fine dust jacket with slightly sunned spine. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NO previous owner markings or inscriptions, NOT price clipped, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-Lib. Dust jacket covered in protective clear wrapper. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed First Edition! Light "1st" penciled on front pastedown page but otherwise sharp, nearly as new copy with clean, unmarked pages throughout. Binding is solid. Original dust jacket in great shape. Now with protective archival cover. Signed.…

hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Ex-library book with stamps on the first page, it is also likely to have a small shelf number sticker on the spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1988. 320 pages. Signed by the author. Black cloth with gilt spine titling, lightly bumped to spine ends. Dust jacket covered in archival Mylar, lightly rubbed and bumped to edges. Interior bright, unmarked. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Rare First British Edition. Precedes US publication. Published in the US under the title Blood Shot. Signed, without inscription, by author on the FULL title page. Near Fine book in Near Fine dust jacket. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NO previous owner markings or inscriptions, NOT price clipped, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-Lib. Dust jacket covered in protective clear wrapper. Signed.…

Condition: Fine. Signed, 1st U.K. Ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, Publisher, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, (1988). FIRST EDITION, (VG / VG), Publishers Black Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles To Spine, 8" X 5 1/2", 320pp. A Clean. Tight, Book, With No Inscriptions, (ISBN 0 575 04372 5). The Dust Jacket As a Small (repaired) Tear To The Back Corner Flap, Else Clean & Bright, In A Clipped, Dust Jacket, In A (removable) Mylar Seeve. "Returning to run-down South Chicago and childhood haunts, P.I. Vic Warshawski agrees to investigate the paternity of Caroline Djiak, whose mother Louisa is dying of acute renal failure. Following some leads, Vic visits Louisa's old workplace, the Xerxes chemical plant. But her questions have a curious effect, doors are closed, interest is aroused in high places. Then a body is dragged out of dead Stick Pond which lies at the heart of South Chicago's chemical wasteland: an employee of SCRAP, South Chicago Reawakening Project, has been murdered. A poerful local alderman with mob connections is implicated. Ignoring warnings, Vic digs deeper, now sure that she has stumbled on something more sinister than Caroline Djiak's possible peternity . and what she finds is a story of corruption and cruelty on a horryifing scale, where profit has more value than human life. Brilliant, complex, ultimately chilling, 'Toxic Shock' is a stunning crime novel from the author of 'Bitter Medicine'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black Boards with Gilt blocked titles to spine, 205 x 140 mm approx. 320 pp. First Edition 1988. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- MIld general shelf wear, no notable soiling, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - a little laminate rubbing to top front corner and 2 mm approx nick to head of spine, no fade, non price clipped - cover £11.95 [1988] supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).…

First edition hardcover in fine condition, in very good price clipped dustjacket., faded spine. The fifth V I Warshawski novel. (Book ref 3806).