Mother's Boys by Barnard, Robert - 1981

London: Wm Collins & Sons & Co, 1981. 1st Edition. Grey Cloth. Fair/Good Minus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Ex-Library 188pp. A first edition crime novel. Dust wrapper not price clipped. Fading to the spine of the wrapper. Rubbing to the edges of the wrapper with some light creasing to the rear and front of the wrapper. Library sticker to the front board adn some soiling to the spine and front board, under the wrapper. Several library stamps to the front end paper adn title page. Thinning and superficial tear to the front end paper where a library sticker has been removed. Significant spine lean. Occasional light foxing to the periphery of some pages. A fiar copy.

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London:: Collins,, (1981). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (price-clipped with publisher's new price sticker added) . First printing. Features Inspector McHale on his first murder case. "Lill Hodsden is a monster. She humiliates her husband, blackmails her lovers, browbeats her teen-aged daughter, and smothers her grown sons with a mother love that leaves them inwardly screaming for freedom. Vulgar and flashy herself, Lill has a way of zeroing in on everybody else's weaknesses and ridiculing them. She is just asking to be murdered." In fact, her sons had been planning to do that on the Saturday, but someone else got there first. A stand-alone novel published in U.S. as 'Death of a Perfect Mother.' 188 pp.

London: Collins, 1981 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Two tiny marks to foredge, one to bottom edge, three letters in crayon on rear endpaper. Jacket has minor rubbing/edge wear. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New. From the creator of Charlie Peace and Perry Trethowan