Puppet on a Chain, First Edition (50 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1969 Collins first edition hardback; Very Good, clean and sound copy, lightly aged; with good unclipped dj with some shelf wear; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Condition: Good. 1971. First Edition Thus. 222 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. cloth, dj, VG/VG. 255pp, price clipped dust jacket, small nicks to base of spine. Action adventure set against the drug smuggling world in and out of Amsterdam.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A presentable, bright clean copy of the first impression with no inscriptions and fresh looking cloth boards. Crisp gilt title lettering on the spine. Slightly cocked/lean to the spine on close inspection. The dust jacket is pretty bright, not price clipped albeit with some edge wear, creasing and minor loss at the top edge of the back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1969 First Edition. Size octavo, 255 pages. Blue hard cover with gilt titles to the spine. Condition very good, corners and edges slightly rubbed, else fine, contents clean. A thriller set in Amsterdam, When Paul Sherman, of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau, arrives a Schiphol Airport, he discovers that the gang of heroin smuggler he was out to smash knew of his movements as well as he did. From this moment the tension never lets up. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. First edition. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in Good+ edge-rubbed dust-jacket chipped at head and foot of spine and with one repaired tear.

First Edition. Very good book in a very good price clipped dust wrapper,owner inscribed on ffep.

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, o/w very good in like price-clipped dustjacket lightly rubbed on the edges.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper , now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 255 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; Price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Includes ownership inscription. Subjects; Alistair MacLean (1922-1987). 20th-century literature. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. F/VG. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper (extremities rubbed with fraying at head cap); pp. 256 (last blank). A near fine copy.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 200mm x 136mm (8" x 5"). 255pp.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper , now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 255 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; Price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Includes ownership inscription. Subjects; Alistair MacLean (1922-1987). 20th-century literature. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Entire DW has slight internal strengthening to extremities. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, A on copyright pa. NOT an ex library book. 826 pages. Pages toning. Dust jacket has no chips or tears.

Cloth Bds. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner Stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. [1st printing], Nov. 1970; #M1482. Cover is uncredited.

First Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Clean. Tight.Nice dust jacket. near Fine/ Very good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st A. Light shelfwear along edges else near fine in near fine dust jacket,lightly rubbed and browning at rear, unclipped [$5.95 price intact]. Book.

Light Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. 255 Clean, Unmarked Pages. Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt. 1969 Date On Title Page. No Inscriptions. Dj Priced L1.25, With A 1" Closed Vertical Tear Top Edge, Front Panel, Flaps Each With Several Creases, Tips Slightly Worn, No Chipping, Almost No Wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ghost tag on inside front cover and ffep and darkening to hinges from original glue under pastedowns. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, wear to head and heal of spine, small chips, 1/4" closed rips.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1969). 1st Edition. 281 p. Hardbound with Dust Jacket. DJ is worn at spine extremities with some surface chaffing along the head of he rear turn-in. Minor wear to the boards at extremities. Still a bright copy. Interior text is clean and pages are square in their binding. Near Fine/VG+.

First edition. Pagination: 281p. Publishers cloth with just a hint of shelf wear at edges and spine ends, very minor rubbing at back board, near fine. Illustrated dust jacket, very minor shelf wear at edges and corners, tiny bit of cracking at head of spine and top inside back flap, near fine. In protective mylar. Excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition stated. No wear to the binding. No distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. The dust jacket priced at $5.95 (not clipped) shows light edge wear, a two inch tear top of the front panel at the hinge. No sun fading.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine copy in like jacket.Stated First Edition.Excellent copy.

1969 stated first American edition in fine 281 page hardcover and jacket-looks only several years old.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Very good / very . Has some light chipping, bumped corners at the bottom. A good looking copy in protective covers.

[Smuggling adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Norman Weaver priced £1.25 / 30s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Small tear to rear panels (taped to reverse side) else a near fine copy. Heroin smuggling thriller set in Amsterdam; an Interpol agent is on the case with two assistants. Another classic action adventure from a master of suspense. In the 50s and 60s, Maclean was one of the chief rivals of Ian Fleming, both authors sharing a Scottish heritage and a Royal Navy background.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, second printing of MacLean's stand-alone novel. Sticker scar to front cover. Light reading crease to spine. Slight edgewear. Earlier owner's gift inscription on rear of front cover. Markings on the "books published by this author" page. In Good Condition. Solid reading copy.