Visa to Limbo Tapa dura - 1978

Cassell, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. jacket is shelf rubbed. mild tanning. light marks. well bound. very good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

LONDON: CASSELL, 1978 Black Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 205 x 135 mm approx.202 pp. First Edition 1st printing 1978. Thriller by Richard Henry Michael Clayton written under the pseudonym of William Haggard. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- book block slightly cocked with dust spotting to top edge a few foxing spots to fore edge and end papers. Previous owner book plate to front paste down- that of Cynthia and John Barnes. Sir John was former British Ambassador to the Netherlands and previously Israel. Dust Jacket- mild general shelf rubbing with 2 mm approx scuff to laminate top front corner, non price clipped- cover £4.50. No other notable defects to book or dust jacket).

London: Cassell and Co.,, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1978. Hardback. Black cloth; gilt lettered spine. In black and colour pictorial dust-jacket (not price-clipped). Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (iv), 201 pages. WILLIAM HAGGARD (born Croydon 11 August 1907, died Frinton-on-Sea 27 October 1993) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton, the son of the Rev. Henry James Clayton and Mabel Sarah Clayton. He was an English writer of fictional spy thrillers set in the 1960s through the 1980s, or, as the writer H. R. F. Keating called them, "action novels of international power." Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British Establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principal character in most of his novels is the urbane Colonel Charles Russell of the… Leer más

First edition first printing of the eighteenth novel in the Colonel Russell series. Light edge wear. Light rubbing to the surface of the dustjacket. In near fine / near fine condition.