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Last Flight
by Myrick Land
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393087174
- ISBN 13
- 9780393087178
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1975. Hardcover. 3rd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; finish flaking/mottling to board top and bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); moisture stain near head; edge bumping; clipped lower front corner. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Deckle edges.160 pp 8vo. Money hustler Ross Morgan had taken out a $50,000 per capita insurance policy on the lives of four of his friends who fly off with him to the Rockies where they come down to earth in a fatal crash. All dead. . . but perhaps one, seen after the plane had last refueled. Their old friend Dave Reynolds goes back through their belongings, human and otherwise, to find out just who is left to gain what in an insurance fraud. Reynolds does the research on all involved and finally on a drafty street in a strange city he is set to capture the murderer. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013098
- Title
- Last Flight
- Author
- Myrick Land
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393087174
- ISBN 13
- 9780393087178
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- murder mystery, murder fiction, crime fiction, airplane crash, insurance fraud, Myrick Land,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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