Published by Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1979
ISBN 10: 0385150970 ISBN 13: 9780385150972
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, black with yellow and brown print; DJ has slight shelfwear but is clean and bright; Boards in black cloth, scratch to front, else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 179 pages. 1358263. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980, 1980
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Crime caper] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth in original dust-wrapper designed by Melvyn Gill. Some bumping, jacket nicked at spine, some edgewear, not faded. A very good copy. Two short episodes with the gentleman adventurer. Includes the seasonal mystery 'The Unsaintly Santa'.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980, 1980
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Crime caper] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 175 [5]. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed, with the original cloth spine bound in at rear. Light spotting to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Two short episodes with the gentleman adventurer. Includes the seasonal mystery 'The Unsaintly Santa'. According to Paul Simpson (The Rough Guide to James Bond, p.47), 'The Saint' is a literary ancestor of 007, the debonair Simon Templar being a gentleman adventurer whose parallels with Bond are obvious. Steinbrunner & Penzler, pp.349-351. See also Gilbert, p.616.