In the Hour before Midnight
by Higgins, Jack
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 185 pp. Near Fine / Very Good+. Original dark green cloth-backed boards with orange lettering on spine. Original dust jacket intact with price of $4.50 on front flap. Very slight edge wear to top and bottom corners of spine, else tight, clean. Dust jacket shows signs of shelf wear at top and bottom of spine, rubbing in spots, a one-centimeter closed tear and one-centimeter crease in a corner of the spine. Light browning at front hinge and to head of dust jacket flaps. Published by Doubleday for the Crime Club. Harry Patterson's second book to be published in the U.S. under the pen name, Jack Higgins. Also published as The Sicilian Heritage. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.
Synopsis
In the world of the Mafia, sometimes death is the only way out....
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000039
- Title
- In the Hour before Midnight
- Author
- Higgins, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Original dark green cloth-backed boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 185
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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- Shelf Wear
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- Hinge
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- Tight
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- Flap(s)
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- First Edition
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- Good+
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....