Amateur by Robert littell

Simon & Schuster, 1981. hardcover. Fine. Author Signed Hardcover Book 1981 NY: Overlook. First edition, first printing (thus), fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author, remainder marked.

New York. 1981. May 1981. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Bottom Edge. 0671418734. 252 pages. hardcover. Cover: One Plus One Studio. keywords: Mystery America Espionage. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Amateur is Charlie Heller, a modest man, a back-room functionary employed by the CIA. His specialty, and his private intellectual obsession, is cryptology - encoding and decoding with the aid of sophisticated computers the thousands of messages that link East and West in their continual efforts to read each other's minds. But Charlie Heller is no Cold Warrior . not yet. Untangling codes for the CIA is Heller's way of paying the rent and of gaining access to the CIA's immense computer, through which he pursues his gentleman's hobby: searching all of Shakespeare's works to find the elusive cryptogram he believes will reveal their true author. It's a quest Charlie pursues with all the dogged, sometimes brilliant inspiration of a… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1981. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Near Good. (Book Club--unstated) Slightly smaller book, gray cloth spine, black boards, black lettering on spine, black inside covers and adjacent end papers, 252 lightly browned heavy pages. DJ glossy background, dark blue front and spine with red illustration of barbed wire on front, front very slightly rubbed, white back has light brown stain with blue edge at bottom back, praise for other Littell books. Near Good DJ/Fine book.

Simon & Schuster, 1981-05-15. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1.

Simon & Schuster, 1981-05-15. Hardcover. Good.

Simon & Schuster, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Simon & Schuster, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 252, (iv).

New York: Simon and Schuster, c1981. First Printing. fair, fair. 22 cm, 252, slightly cocked, DJ pasted to boards, rear endpaper removed His specialty in the CIA was codebreaking, but when foreign terrorists killed his fiancee he sought his own revenge.