Search Results: line of duty by tidyman ernest

Bantam, 1976. Mass market. Good. 0x0x0. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

BANTAM. Mass Market Paperback. USED Fair.

292 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Shaft successes behind him, Tidyman has written a somewhat more seriously intentioned novel of Cleveland detectives during an all too body-filled period of two or three days -- hard rain, black sky, a cold wind coming down off Lake Erie, and a killer cop as a hit man for the local Mafia. The reader is swept from scene to bleak scene of violence, sinister pizza parlors, bars, hijackings, gunnings, rapes with plenty of police procedure. Detective James Dempsey, aging, balding, divorced by a frigid wife who boils like a screaming kettle whenever he tries to visit his kids, is an empty man who sells his soul to the big hoods and plans to start over in South America when his nest egg outweighs his leaden heart. But the department has finally started looking into the six deaths for which he's responsible. While the Mafia steps up its truck heists,… Read More

New York, NY, USA.: Bantam Books, 1976. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover Art. Good / Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!.. 277 pages."The big new shocker about the cop who was a hit man for the mafia." >>> Cover creasing & scuffing; small hole punch to front cover; store stamp to title page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Little, Brown, 1974. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bantam. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0.

Bantam. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. (Fiction, Thriller, Suspense)

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. NF. 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. A fine copy in a VG dust jacket. The DJ is dust soled and has rubs at the head and heel of the spine. There is a close d, 2" tear at the upper right corner of the rear panel that affects th e upper spine. .

Boston:: Little, Brown & Company, 1974.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with silver spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Brown endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Officer James Dempsey is what any police force fears most: a killer copy for hire. Dempsey kills for pay and doctors the reports. Nobody asks questions. But one report has too many stray bullets and the police start hunting down a traitor in their midst. This follows Cleveland's police force through a city on the verge of explosion. Ethnic neighborhoods cry for law and order while a ghetto smolders. A sniper plays God by murdering the wicked. The mob hijacks trucks with an efficiency that baffles detectives. For the police from the flatfoot to the lab man, it's all in the line of duty. But Dempsey, the perfect hit man, isn't on the blotter.''

Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

Boston:: Little Brown,, (1974.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp.

Corgi, Transworld, 1975. Paperback. Acceptable. 1975. No Edition Stated. 288 pages. Paperback book. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Notable staining, soiling, marking and creasing to covers and spine.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1974. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo). I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. This novel by the Academy-Award winning author of The French Connection (and of the Shaft series) deals with a rogue Cleveland cop who moonlights as a hitman. The book is bound in red cloth with die-stamped silver spine titles. There are no remainder marks. The binding is tight and secure. The pages are clean and bright throughout. There is a small address sticker from the original owner on the front endpaper. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 292 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Tidyman, Ernest. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has two 1" tears at top of spine, light rubbing along top edge.

London: W.H. Allen/Howard & Wyndham, 1974. Book. Illus. by Leslie Edwards (dust jacket illustration). Good. Hardcover. 1st UK edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A man "waits in a comfortless room lit by a single glaring bulb, seller of secrets of the organisation that could pillage the metropolis. A second comes hunting him with a policeman's badge shielding a ruthless assassin's hunger for the kill. And a third, a just and honest man, begins to know that his hands alone can stop the bloodbath that threatens to engulf his city." Olive cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 240 pages. This copy w/publisher's promotional sticker on front panel ("A killer cop/for hire!/ROBIN MOORE/says: 'He gets even more/action into this book/than he did in/his screenplay of/THE FRENCH/CONNECTION.'"). Bumped corners, a bit cocked, mild spine sunning, foxed top edge, in rubbed dust jacket w/light edgewear, impressions/scratches..

London: W. H. Allen , 1974. Brown cloth with gilt on spine, boards top edge and spine are showing some fadding, 240 clean pages, tight square and clean, dust jacket has minor chipping and two small closed tears 1/2" or less. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Illus. by Edwards, Leslie . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Little, Brown, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. 8 vo. 292 pp. First edition (stated). Fine in a fine jacket. By the author of the several "Shaft" novels.

Little, Brown. Collectible - Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Good dust jacket. (literature, Fiction, Drama, Crime)

New York: Little Brown & Co.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardbound.

Boston: Little Brown, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny tears on the rear panel. One of Tidyman's few non-*Shaft* titles, about a killer cop in Cleveland. Tidyman won an Academy Award for his screenplay for *The French Connection*.