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Jackal: The Secret Wars of Carlos the Jackal
by Follain, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0297841475
- ISBN 13
- 9780297841470
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Photo montage illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £18.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to jacket. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dark green coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 8pp b/w photos at centre.* Pages: 272 pp. text. xlvi pp. Notes, acknowledgements, bibliography & index at rear.* Description: From his birth in Venezuela to his capture in the Sudan, the life of Carlos 'The Jackal' has been an extraordinary one. Carlos' career as a terrorist ranged across the whole gamut of the terrorist activities in the decades of the '70's and '80's and made him the world's most wanted, famous, recognisable, and yet seemingly elusive killer.* A FINE copy of the 1st. edition 1st. impression. With no visible faults.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3835
- Title
- Jackal: The Secret Wars of Carlos the Jackal
- Author
- Follain, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0297841475
- ISBN 13
- 9780297841470
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 288
- Date Published
- 1998-10-12
- Keywords
- Biography: general, Terrorism, armed struggle, Biography, Terrorists, Venezuela, Martinez-Torres, Carlos, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
- Size
- 23.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
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