XPD. [Export Issue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by DEIGHTON Len
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hutchinson,, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly sunned dustwrapper.
Synopsis
A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain's most closely guarded secret. Anyone who learns of them must die - with their file stamped:XPD - Expedient Demise.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39033
- Title
- XPD. [Export Issue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- DEIGHTON Len
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson,
- Date Published
- [1981]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, deighton, len deighton, spy fiction
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About the Seller
Island Books
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Dustwrapper
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