Content Assignment by Roth Holly (38 results)

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 47080986. 1750954591. 6/26/2025 4:16:31 PM.

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st Edition. Penguin, #1323, 1958. Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. A little tanning to page edges and spine, scuff line on inside front page, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Condition: VeryGood unmarked. Book Club edition. Exciting espionage novel set in postewar Berlin and USA. 5-43/4 x 801/2, 190mpp, toip edge tinted. Hardback in brick cloth boards, no jacket.

Condition: Good. 1958. Published in Penguin Books. 158 pages. Green and white striped paper covers. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair To Good. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. Vintage paperback, Dell 850; Roth's novel of Cold War espionage features American writer John Terrant whose fiancee, Ellen Content disappeared in post-WW II Berlin eighteen months ago without a trace until he read a small item one morning in the London Times; cover art by William Rose; text is clean, tight, square, age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing considerable surface and edgewear, though no major tearing or chipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Befriedigend. 158 S. engl. sprachig, Einband berieben, etwas lichtrandig, Titel mit kl. Kritzelei, Seiten gebräunt LIEFERZEITEN / DELIVERY TIMES: DEUTSCHLAND 5 - 14 Tage EUROPA/EUROPE: 7 - 30 Tage/Days USA/WELTWEIT/WORLDWIDE: 14 - 60 Tage/Days (!!!) +++ Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. 1st Edition. Near Fine, Page Browning/VG++, Tears, Offset, Abrasion. 1st Edition. Thriller. Jaacket by Biro. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

New Edition. Condition: fine. 1st Dent 1989 trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Low-grade reading copy with heavy spine leaning. Dell #850 pb. Nice cover art. 25 cent cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. good +. Book Club. 6 x 9 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; mild wear, one corner bent, covers clean. Binding tight and text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; worn and rubbed, many chips, part os spine gone. Fic. Stax.

GD. EXCELLENT ESPIONAGE OF KOREAN WAR ERA.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Former Library book. (mystery, crime, fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, so stated. Yellow boards slightly darkened, a couple of spots, pages age toned else very good in dust jacket, edges rubbed, small pieces out along top and at spine head and foot, rubbed and soiled. Not price clipped, $2.50 price intact. Roth's first novel "The story follows English reporter John Terrant as he travels to America to find Ellen Content. Terrant had been working in postwar divided Berlin and along with a friend met Ellen, who says she works as a secretary at the US Embassy. Over the course of the next week or so, he meets with her a total of 4 times. In the last meeting, he gets involved with Ellen as she tries to rescue a Russian man and his wife. The find the man dead. Ellen orders John to save the wife and take her to Ellen's boss. John does this and then loses track of Ellen. John has fallen deeply in love with Ellen during these short meetings and over the next years he continues to try and find her. He does discover that she has worked for the CIA and that she seems to have disappeared on a ship to New York. When John discovers a new article that seems to indicate Ellen is still alive, he heads to New York, against advice / orders from the American FBI and even Scotland Yard, to try and find Ellen. There you have the crux of this entertaining thriller, as John stumbles around New York city and state, trying to find clues to Ellen's existence." -- Goodreads. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing, First Edition Thus. Roth's first novel is this Inner Sanctum mystery featuring John Terrant, an English journalist searching for a woman who disappeared in post-World War II Berlin. The hunt leads him to New York City and then upstate New York as he also becomes hunted by the FBI and CIA; First Edition Thus (a condensed version titled, "The Girl Who Vanished," was published in "The Saturday Evening Post."); top of spine is slightly bumped, text browned due to age but still clean and tight; dustjacket worn at edges, small chip top of front panel near spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.…

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 159 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Front free endpaper missing. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Book has slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDEmail or call for further information.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; wrappers very slightly dulled. Some foxing internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 158 p. Subjects; Art ; Fiction. Mystery novels. Drama. English literature. English fiction. 20th Century fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. 1958 1st Penguin edition (no.1323) with spine and cover uncreased; discolouration and foxing to cover, particularly white areas; spine corners and edges a little chipped; page fore-edges tanned; internally, edges of pages yellowed; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Good paperback.…

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. 1st Penguin ed. Green & White Penguin no.1323. Pages & spine browned. Used - Good. Good paperback.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st Penguin edition. Green & White Penguin no.1323. Pages browned. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

1st edition. Condition: vg++. vg++ 1st Penguin 1323 1958 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; wrappers very slightly dulled. Some foxing internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 158 p. Subjects; Art ; Fiction. Mystery novels. Drama. English literature. English fiction. 20th Century fiction. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Thus. 158pp - covers slightly rubbed and soiled - dealer's stamp to front cover and half-title page - slight wear to edges - tape to half-title page gutter - light foxing to content edges - Penguin 1323 - INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED FOR THIS BOOK - EMAIL FOR DETAILS. …

1st. Penguin Edn. 158pp. plus 2pp. publisher's adverts. Light creases to corners of back cover. This apart a near very good plus copy in the original green & white covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Penguin Books edition, 158 pages, near fine condition in card covers, very minor marking and edge rubbing, top edge slightly browned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Penguin printing 1958. Paperback. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight book. PAGES ARE TANNED. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 142.3. The Content Assignment by Holly Roth.…

Paperback. Condition: G+. 1st Thus. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age.