Fear Tapa dura - 1978

Macmillan, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st British edition. 244 Pages. The jacket is shelf rubbed, with closed tears along the edges. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owners signature on the front end page, overall clean and complete. Tightly bound.[Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Macmillan, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. jacket is shelf rubbed. tanning. ownership inscription. page ends are lightly marked. well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Macmillan, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. a little edge wear on the book and jacket. mild foxing and tape residue. ownership inscription. sound binding. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. 244pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Leaves clean. Plain black boards undamaged. Art-illustrated (Peter Goodfellow) dustjacket mildly edgeworn and creased, plus significant magenta/yellow colour loss on spine (not affecting text). In this spell-binding psychological thriller-debut fiction from the author John Ives (pseudonym of prolific author Brian Francis Wynne Garfield, b. 1939), we find three men and one woman - all psychiatrists - kidnapped by a psychotic killer, a war-damaged American indian named Duggai. Naked and hungry they are abandoned to die in the heat of the Arizona desert. With a resourceful leader in Sam Mackenzie, can they survive . . . ? First published in the United States as 'Fear in a Handful of Dust', 1978. Book weight approx. 420g.. First U.K.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.