The Great Train Robbery
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Barbara's Collectibles, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.Barbara's Collectibles
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Condition: Used - Very good
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First Edition. 8vo; Publisher's brown cloth and green paper boards, with black lettering on cover and silver lettering on spine. Pictorial paper dustjacket, unclipped; 266pp. Small dampstain on lower inner corner of rear board and tail of spine. Corresponding dampstain can be found on the dustjacket, along with a small closed tear near head of spine. Interior is clean save for a brown mark on front free endpaper.
Seller Inventory # 651
- Title
- The Great Train Robbery
- Author
- Chrichton, Michael
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- VG
- Dust jacket
- VG
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394494016
- ISBN 13
- 9780394494012
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Dimensions
- 8vo
- Seller catalogs
- 20th Century Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
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From the Inside Flap
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....
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Barbara's Collectibles
Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
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