Man's Illegal Life Tapa dura - 1998

Headline Book Publishing, 1998-04-02. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x5x0. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! First British edition, first printing. Originally published by Collins in 1984. Virtually no wear to the jacket! ! ! Jacket is NOT price clipped. The covers are clean and bright, edges are sharp. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. Pages are clean and white. Binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark. Small (half of a dime) stain to bottom of pages.

London: Headline Book Publishing/Hodder Headline PLC, 1998. Book. Illus. by Paul Bawden (dust jacket illustration). Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Headline edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Originally published in 1984 by William Collins Sons & Company. A mystery set in early eighteenth-century Drury Lane, "one of the most dangerous and volatile districts of London, where prostitutes solicit openly on the street-corners, beggar children sleep rough in the gutters and the busy gin-houses ply their raucous trade." In his boarded-up house a ruined entrepreneur is found tied to a chair, starved to death in a fashion reminiscent of the fate of plague victims fifty years previous, and a parish watchman must determine whether the plague has returned or whether this is a connection between the murder and the disappearance of the dead man's journals of the plague years. Spine a bit cocked, mild general wear. Dust jacket w/light general wear..

London : Headline , 1998(1994) . First Headline Printing . NF/NF . 8VO . Very light wear to book and unpriceclipped jacket. Owner's inititals on title page.

London, United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing, Limited. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Thus. Hardcover. 0747219605 . About new book, unmarked, in barely rubbed dj. .

New. New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket 179 Pages From the Publisher In this spellbinding, superbly-written trio of murder mysteries, Keith Heller follows the career of George Man, a parish watchman in 18th-century London then among the seamiest, most dangerous cities in the world As Man works the watch, patrolling its fetid slums and treacherous back streets, he opens the door to an underworld of thieves and prostitutes, white slavers and murders --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title