The Deer Hunter

London: Coronet Books / Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1982). Softcover. 034024335X . No signatures. Crease to lower corner of front cover. Some foxing. ; 1982 reprint. 11th printing 187, [5 (advertisements)] pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 178 x 110mm. The novel othat was made into a film starring Robert de Niro. "He was a young steelworker from a sad little hill town in Pennsylvania. Nothing had prepared him for war in the jungles of Asia . . . nothing except the hellish heat of the blast furnaces . . . gut-searing boilermakers . . . the trailer life . . . and the strength of his passion for hunting the great deer of the Alleghenies." - from blurb on rear cover. "The peaks of the Allegheny Mountains were invisible, lost in the murky dawn and soiled cloud cover. Large, moist snow flakes fell steadily and without sound, covering the rotting, exhaust-stained mounds of snow alongside the highway. It was the first snow of the year." - the opening sentences. .