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Code Z
by Swerdlow, Joel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1979. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, signed by the author. Very clean unfaded black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers, inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper: "For Jan - Thanks for the hospitality - Joel Swerdlow - Jan' 79". 275 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Code Z: an unpublicized federal statute empowering the President to step aside during national crises in favor of a specially trained "crisis manager." A provocative and disturbing novel about power and paranoia, three critical hours in Washington, D.C. when the President relinquishes his bower to a brilliant, highly trained agent of the CIA..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015938
- Title
- Code Z
- Author
- Swerdlow, Joel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- NOVEL FICTION SUSPENSE CIA, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, JOEL SWERDLOW
- Bookseller catalogs
- Suspense;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- G
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