Quarantine: A novel Tapa dura - 1978

Holt Rinehart & Winston. New in New dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 003044201X . Book and DJ New. NO markings of ANY kind. New DJ not price clipped ($8.95) ; Author's 1st novel. ; 194 pages .

New York, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 194 pages, orange quarter cloth. A fine, clean, hardcover first American edition, first printing, with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good+, clean dust jacket with light fading to the back strip, with original price.

New York: Holt Rinehart Winston , 1979. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine. Nice and tight, the jacket spine is sunned.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW w/small closed tear to lower edge of rear endpaper.. Bi-color boards w/silver lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/light wear & discoloration to spine. Trace soiling to upper text edge. A moral thriller set in Egypt circa 1937 in which an un-named, Australian narrator reveals a youthful experience. Then enroute to England to study law, the narrator finds himself sailing the Suez Canal. The battered old ship is inexplicably detained, and all passengers are quarantined in an isolated, decrepit hotel. Then begins a "faszad", an Egyptian word connoting "dirty business" covering the trivial to the disastrous. This faszad proves deadly. An eye-witness account by the narrator, imprisoned in a web of his own passivity and jealously, is unable to prevent the ensuing violence. First novel from the Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck (1942 - ), Australian… Leer más

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. Hardcover. Good.