The Moving Target
Language: English
Published by Allison & Busby, London, 1986
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Alexander David Fine Books, Ashtead, United KingdomAlexander David Fine Books
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 2026
Condition: Used - Good
£ 100.00
Quantity: 1 available
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This Allison & Busby first UK edition (1986) is of interest to collectors of Ross Macdonald, the Lew Archer series, crime fiction firsts, and scarce 1980s literary hardcovers in original dust jackets. About: A good-plus copy in a good dust jacket. Boards sound and clean beneath jacket; spine slightly tanned at top edge. Dust jacket bright and striking with the bold black, dark red and green Lew Archer face design; notable wear and chipping to the head of the spine panel with some loss; minor rubbing to corners; rear panel with author photograph and ISBN barcode clean and intact; flaps clean with critical blurbs. Text block clean and fresh throughout; half-title page present. A solid and collectable copy of the scarce first UK edition of the first Lew Archer novel.
Seller Inventory # ADFB-100072
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Moving Target
- Author
- Ross Macdonald (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar)
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby, London
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Books, Print Books
Alexander David Fine Books
Ashtead, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 2026
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