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Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # F10B-01508
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cover faded, spine creased, light bumps and shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 038235
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Very Good Condition. No dust jacket. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscriptions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages. Seller Inventory # 63932
Book Description paperback. 1st edition. New York. 1985. Washington Square Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers . 0671546120. 219 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Under the city streets Prentis works as a senior clerk in a police department where are stored the archives of dead crimes' - undisclosed complicities and uninvestigated evils. His investigations are supervised by the enigmatic Mr Quinn who, for reasons of security, distrust - and spite? - never makes clear the purpose of this task. Events take a sinister turn when Quinn directs his inquiries towards Prentis's own affairs, and - Prentis feels - to those of his father, a wartime hero now confined to a mental home. Unsettled, Prentis gradually suspects that his father's breakdown is somehow connected with Quinn's menacing behavior and that the link is to be found in SHUTTLECOCK. For SHUTTLECOCK is the true story of his father's wartime exploits. Prentis has lived under it spell - and shadow - all his life. But his belief in his father's heroism is now undermined by the discovery of cracks in the story, small discrepancies that have odd parallels with a series of coded files that have mysteriously disappeared. He is sure that Quinn has taken them, but why? Does Quinn have something to hide? Or could it be that his father is not the man everyone thought he was and that Prentis is not the son he thought himself to be. Through the complex character of Prentis, Graham Swift builds up an intense psychological thriller - an unnerving study of power and inadequacy and the manipulative aspects of family and work life. inventory #22789 Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Seller Inventory # z22789
Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine+. First Edition/First Printing. Nicked at spine ends. Paperback original. Seller Inventory # 10712
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1985, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", stated First Washington Square Press printing May, 1985. Like new condition. Seller Inventory # 10-11351
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Washington Square Press. SOFTCOVER. 1985. FIRST Paperback Edition, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in brown glossy pictorial paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Cover art by Fred Marcellino. Dead Crimes Division of London Police Department. Stored in Archival sleeve. Seller Inventory # 004965
Book Description Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good+ first edition thus/first printing signed by author on title page. Unread with clean interior and free of spine creases. Shelfwear includes rubbed edges, general toning coverwraps and scuffed surfaces. Rear text block has a hard bump near the spine, and some spots of soiling. signed by author or artist. Seller Inventory # 1725
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition / First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated wrappers. 220 pages. Very fine. A paperbound original. Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 10880-1
Book Description Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good in Wrappers. Price stamp to FEP, sticker removal to bottom front panel. Author's second novel. Seller Inventory # 31504