Edinburgh: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped dust jacket shows only light edge wear and scuffing. Sticker shadow and erasure on front pastedown ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. Red boards with gilt titles on spine. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 222 pages; "Philip Hepburn, Lt. Commander RN, home in East Lothian on leave from Far Eastern service, stumbles on strange events in the benighted seas of the great Firth of Forth estuary, and stumbles again, this time to his own hurt, on the equally benighted tidelands of Aberlady Bay. An inquisitive and obstinate man, Trisha Denholm saves him once - but cannot save him a second time." .

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 15272
Title: Drug on the Market
Author: Tranter, Nigel
Illustrator: Douglas Hall jacket art
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Date Published: 1962
Keywords: MARITIME, scotland, aberlady bay
Bookseller catalogs: British Fiction; Fiction / Maritime;

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About Ainsworth Books

Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.

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12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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