A near-fine copy in a near fine unclipped dustjacket. This copy has been signed twice by Crichton--once directly on the front free endpaper and once directly on the half-title page--signatures only without any inscriptions. A tight and clean copy with some light fading to the boards and pastedowns--otherwise would be fine. The dustjacket is unclipped ($7.95) and near fine with only a bit of darkening to the inside flaps--although not much--and the least bit of rubbing to the panels--a beautiful copy. Written just after "The Terminal Man".

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Title: The Great Train Robbery (Signed Twice---1st Printing)
Publisher: Knopf, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1975
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394494016
ISBN 13: 9780394494012
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....

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teenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....

From the Paperback edition.

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