New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951. First US Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 333pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($3.00). Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket generally scuffed and dust soiled with minor soiling to front cover and rubbing to extremities. Bumping and creasing to edges with minor tears and chips. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with minor scratches to covers. Edges foxed with damp staining to endsheets but pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket. Published simultaneously in London as Operation Pax, the novel follows a con man who steals a secret alchemical formula and hides it in the Bodleian Library.

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Title

The Paper Thunderbolt

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York

Publication Date

1951

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good +

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