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The Gun-Maker's Gift >>>> A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED & DATED UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<
by Mathew Plampin
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine /Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0007273967
- ISBN 13
- 9780007273966
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About This Item
London: Harper Collins. A fine UK first edition, first printing in a fine dustjacket (not price-clipped) fitted with a protective and removable mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days). "A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher. Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his gun-making business into England. He acquires a riverside warehouse in Pimlico and sets about converting it into a pistol works capable of mass producing his patented revolvers on an unprecedented scale -- aware that the prospect of war with Russia means huge profits. The young, ambitious Edward Lowry is hired by Colt to act as his London secretary. Although initially impressed by the Colonel's dynamic approach to his trade, Edward comes to suspect that the American's intentions in the Metropolis are not all they appear. Meanwhile, the secretary becomes romantically involved with Caroline Knox, a headstrong woman from the machine floor -- who he discovers is caught up in a plot to steal revolvers from the factory's stores. Among the workforce Colt has gathered from the seething mass of London's poor are a gang of desperate Irish immigrants, embittered refugees from the potato famine, who intend to use these stolen six-shooters for a political assassination in the name of revenge. As pistols start to go missing, divided loyalties and hidden agendas make the gun-maker's factory the setting for a tense story of intrigue, betrayal and murder." - SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2010.
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- Bookseller
- Zeitgeist Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000289
- Title
- The Gun-Maker's Gift >>>> A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED & DATED UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK
- Author
- Mathew Plampin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007273967
- ISBN 13
- 9780007273966
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- MATHEW PLAMPIN; GUN-MAKER'S GIFT; FICTION; HISTORICAL NOVEL; THE STREET PHILOSOPHER; LONDON; CRIME; MURDER
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