New Centurions: Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Press Monthly Books, Boston, MA. 1970. Hardcover. Stated First Edition but has BOMC on the front flap and a square indentation on the rear board thus BOMC. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; sunfading to head, tail, and spine; shelfwear to board bottom edges; light soiling to textblock edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); has BOMC notation on the top and bottom of the front flap; closed tears and light rubbing to head, tail, and tips; light sun toning to spine. Blue paper over boards with blue cloth overlay to the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 376 pp 8vo. The DJ lacks any mention of Book of the Month Selection and the author bio on the back of the dust jacket contains the description "half-Mexican.; Little Brown/Atlantic logo is stamped on the rear board. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano childhood. In a few weeks they'll put on the blue uniform of the LAPD. In months they'll know how to interpret the mad babble of the car radio, smell danger, trap a drug dealer, hide a secret, and-most of all-live with the understanding that cops are different from everyone else. But for these men, these new centurions, time is an enemy. The year is 1960. The streets are burning with rage. And before they can grow old on this job, they'll have to fight for their lives.A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Author's first book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Press Monthly Books, Boston, MA. 1970. Hardcover. Stated First Edition but has BOMC on the front flap and a square indentation on the rear board thus BOMC. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light soiling and bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); has BOMC notation on the top and bottom of the front flap; closed tears and light rubbing to head, tail, and tips. Blue paper over boards with blue cloth overlay to the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 376 pp 8vo. The DJ lacks any mention of Book of the Month Selection and the author bio on the back of the dust jacket contains the description "half-Mexican.; Little Brown/Atlantic logo is stamped on the rear board. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano childhood. In a few weeks they'll put on the blue uniform of the LAPD. In months they'll know how to interpret the mad babble of the car radio, smell danger, trap a drug dealer, hide a secret, and-most of all-live with the understanding that cops are different from everyone else. But for these men, these new centurions, time is an enemy. The year is 1960. The streets are burning with rage. And before they can grow old on this job, they'll have to fight for their lives.A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Author's first book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. Signed 6th printing, very good + hardcover shows some light sunning at bottom edges of covers and faint stain at top edge of rear cover, light soil at page edges and some other mild trace wear, in very good + price-clipped dust jacket that shows light soiling, small closed cut at spine edge of middle of front panel, along with edge wear including tiny closed tears. 376 pages. Still an attractive copy of this later printing of Wambaugh's first crime novel that is signed with his name only bottom portion of half title page. Signed.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. Signed. signed and personally inscribed by the author to author Irving Stone. dj shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, tanning. pages clean.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus to Near Fine. Near Fine. First American Edition. First edition stated on copyright page. First issue jacket with "half-Mexican" on rear panel of jacket. Author's first book and hard to find. Price intact jacket ($6.95). Blue of Author's name on spine of jacket completely sunned but title bright and fresh. Unmarked, tight and square. Signed by author on his bookmark which is laid in and features his LAPD Sgt badge and list of 14 books he had written. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small open tears on spine crown.; Title page signed by Joseph Wambaugh.; Signed by Author. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small open tears on spine crown. Light staining on rear panel.; Title page signed by Joseph Wambaugh.; Signed by Author. Signed.