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N Y & Chicago: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Paperback. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Signed EditionBinding Style: Perfect BindingPagination: 191 pagesWidth: 4.5" Height: 6.5". MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel "The Executioners," which was adapted into the film "Cape Fear." In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U. S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade… Read More

St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 031217005X . Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 2; 0.7 x 8 x 5.8 Inches; 214 pages; DJ very lightly rubbed- see graphic. .