The Doomsday Carrier
by Canning, Victor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Companion Book Club, 1978. Hardcover, brown faux leather, with spine decorated and lettered in gold. Bright salmon endpapers. 253pp., First thus by this publisher. The plot involves Charlie, a laboratory chimpanze, who while incubating a devestating plague bacillus, effects his escape from the Ministry of Defense's Biological Research station where he resides. Now alight in the idyllic Wessex countryside an all out--though decidedly discreet- search is launched before a deadly time bomb goes off amongst an unsuspecting populace. A wonderfully droll anti-war, anti-government screed, not Orwell but entertaining never the less. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, attractive, copy.which has one small, nearly invisible blemish to front board, else as new. Near fine.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Faux Leather. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 008114
- Title
- The Doomsday Carrier
- Author
- Canning, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Companion Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Thriller, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Fine
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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