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Shattered [Signed First Printing]
by Francis, Dick
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0718144538
- ISBN 13
- 9780718144531
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 2000. Cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dustjacket, gilt title, (9.5 x 6.5 inches), 271 pages. First Edition/First Printing (with no other printings indicated). SIGNED by author on title page. Francis is acclaimed as one of the world's finest thriller authors. An exceptionally clean, tight copy in like unclipped jacket, collector fine condition. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.
Synopsis
When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape. Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for the ingenuity of his work. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a furnace at never less than 1,800F, he is suddenly faced with a series of terrifying threats to his business and to his life.But the chilling race to find the tape throws more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005546
- Title
- Shattered [Signed First Printing]
- Author
- Francis, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0718144538
- ISBN 13
- 9780718144531
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery & Crime
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- Title Page
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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