Fault Tree Tapa dura - 1984

211 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Marina Robinson, a top investigator with ""Breakdown, Inc."" in California (""we're engineers who investigate why things go wrong""), is hard at work on a challenging case: Why did the Loopy Doop ride collapse at Fun World? Was there negligence in maintenance--or some weakness in the metal itself? Then, however, Marina becomes increasingly distracted from her work--when she starts receiving cryptic notes, even a blurry phone call, from her younger sister Catherine in India. . .who's been dead for ten years! Could Catherine somehow be alive, despite evidence that she died in an ashram fire? Marina must find out--so, dropping the Loopy Doop case, she's off to Bombay, as flashbacks start to fill in the 1970s story: Catherine's involvement in a quasi-Hindu, serpent-worshipping cult; Marina's trip to India to bring Catherine back;… Leer más

New York, New York, USA: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984. CF1 - A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in white cloth with gold lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with a very light remainder mark on the top outside paper edges. The main character is a woman failure analyst engineer. Her next project is to analyze the fatal collapse of an amusement park ride. During the process, she begins receiving mysterious messages, apparently from her younger sister who died in India ten years earlier. The investigator returns to Bombay, India and begins looking into her sister's role in a suspect ashram connected to the ritual sacrifice of a young boy and burned to the ground by an infuriated mob. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very light scattered rubbing. By the author of "Hurricane Season." 211p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine HC in Near Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is clean and complete; slight general age darkening; in paper-backed mylar. 8vo, 211 pp.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First Printing. Hardcover. 0525242880 . foxed on edges .

Dutton, 1984-12-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1x6x9. Signed by Author. Inscribed by author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Dutton, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/As New. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New, save a small lower corner fold at the inner flap. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.

N.Y.: E.P. DUTTON, 1984. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. NEAR FINE WITH LIGHTLY BUMPED TOP CORNER OF FRONT BOARD IN NEAR FINE DJ WITH FADING ON SPINE.

New York: Dutton Books, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by author on half-title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has slight edgewear and rubbing and has creases in the inner folds. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 211 p. Audience: General/trade. Book near fine. By the author of 'Riptide-A Novel Of Suspense' and 'Venetian Mask'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

NY: Dutton, 1984. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Dutton. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in orange and gray with gold titles in white pictorial dust jacket. Squae and tight UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Janel Halverson. Featuring failure analyst Marina Robinson.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.