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Book Description Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Seller Inventory # wbs8265094277
Book Description 1st edition, 1st printing. A tidy copy in tight binding; dust jacket not price-clipped Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS194392I
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is bound in blue boards with very, very light wear on the spine tips & 1 bottom corner bent. There is a previous owner's ink name, place & date inside the front cover. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First Published 1970" The white dust jacket has very, very light wear on 1 corner. Not price clipped. Seller Inventory # 2100 (Box 93)
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN 0434109916. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket. Tight sound unmarked copy. L1.50 original price is still present and unclipped on the front dustjacket flap. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described. Seller Inventory # 203769
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Philip Youngman Carter (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of largely white jacket and spine, corners bruised, some slight yellowing and spotting to white parts of jacket. Price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 201pp. Matthew James Matthew dies of natural causes whilst staying at the upmarket Drover's Arms in the Cotswolds. Max Newgate, the pompous manager of the inn is found dead miles away in a Suffolk river near an archaeological dig. The star geologist of Omega Oils, the brilliant but eccentric Francis Makepeace, could be connected to both, but he has disappeared and seems determined not to be found. L.C. Corkran whose retirement from Her Majesty's security service ?has been greatly exaggerated now consults for the multi national Omega Oils and turns to his old friend Albert Campion (who has always behaved ?like a civilised nonentity? but you wouldn?t play poker with him) for help. A carnival of delightful, and not so delightful, characters become involved in the hunt for the missing geologist. The cool headed, independent Miss Anthea Peregrine, the love struck schoolboy Robert Oncer Smith, the rather dubious antiques dealer Morris Jay, known thug and small time villain Ginger Scott, Appleyard a boorish Suffolk policeman, and the grotesque, repellent and very dangerous Claude Porteous. But why is Makepeace a brilliant and successful man, on the run? Is it because of a failed Omega Oil exploration project in the new African republic of Serendi, or connected to the archaeological excavation of a 4th Century Roman ship? Could the missing Francis Makepeace and the dead Matthew James Matthew somehow be one and the same person? It takes all Campion's guile and charm to get to the bottom of the mystery and ensure that the new, youthful allies he recruits emerge unscathed. Philip Youngman Carter collaborated with his wife, the late Margery Allingham (1904-66), in many of her books over a period of forty years. This is his second book. Seller Inventory # 010790