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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. 22 cm. Subject: Crime.
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Line of Duty
Published by
Little, Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto, 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 292 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Shaft successes behind him, Tidyman has written a somewhat more seriously intentioned novel of Cleveland detectives during an all too body-filled period of two or three days -- hard rain, black sky, a cold wind coming down off Lake Erie, and a killer cop as a hit man for the local Mafia. The reader is swept from scene to bleak scene of violence, sinister pizza parlors, bars, hijackings, gunnings, rapes with plenty of police procedure. Detective James Dempsey, aging, balding, divorced by a frigid wife who boils like a screaming kettle whenever he tries to visit his kids, is an empty man who sells his soul to the big hoods and plans to start over in South America when his nest egg outweighs his leaden heart. But the department has finally started looking into the six deaths for which he's responsible. While the Mafia steps up its truck heists, Dempsey gets paid to rub out a driver-stoolie. He's also into some mad athletics with a throaty singer. His demise brings fair irony -- strong enough for a flick -- but Tidyman's fake grim humor never rises above the crime entertainment level even if he has something more ambitious in mind. Still it might do well. Condition: Corners gently bumped, small tape stain to front paste down. Jacket lightly soiled, 2 inch by 1 inch jagged tear to spine head extending to back else very good in like jacket. Seller Inventory # L1161
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Line of Duty
Seller: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # mon0003516238
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Line of Duty
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0316845116I4N01
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Line of Duty
Published by
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Hardcover
Seller: The Bookworm, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Officer James Dempsey is what any police force fears most: a killer copy for hire. Dempsey kills for pay and doctors the reports. Nobody asks questions. But one report has too many stray bullets and the police start hunting down a traitor in their midst. This follows Cleveland's police force through a city on the verge of explosion. Ethnic neighborhoods cry for law and order while a ghetto smolders. A sniper plays God by murdering the wicked. The mob hijacks trucks with an efficiency that baffles detectives. For the police from the flatfoot to the lab man, it's all in the line of duty. But Dempsey, the perfect hit man, isn't on the blotter.'' BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with silver spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Brown endpapers. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 292 pages. Seller Inventory # 065392
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LINE OF DUTY
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Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. Ratzkin, Lawrence (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, so stated, 10/74. Near fine in dust jacket, moderately soiled at rear panel, light wear, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Small publishers line at bottom of pages. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. Book. Seller Inventory # 021379
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Line Of Duty; A Novel
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Boston, Little, Brown [1974], 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0316845116. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with brown stains on spine, minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature. Seller Inventory # 166799
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Line of Duty
Published by
Little, Brown, 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. Seller Inventory # Q20OS-00294
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Line of Duty
Published by
Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($6.95), a closed tear at the top edge of the spine, a few spots of soiling throughout. Red cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. From the author of Shaft, a crime thriller about James Dempsey, a killer cop for hire, and his work for the Cleveland police department during a period of racial tensions. Seller Inventory # 16210
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LINE OF DUTY
Published by
Little Brown, Boston, 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 16537
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Line of Duty
Published by
Little, Brown, 1974
ISBN 10: 0316845116
ISBN 13: 9780316845113
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age. Seller Inventory # ABE-1693667608699