THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS
de Fleming, Ian
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine to Fine
- Librería
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Collier Books, 1964. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Collier AS 554 V; Originally published in 1957 as a series of articles in the London Sunday Times, this book is Fleming's True Crime account of South African diamond smuggling netting $30 million a year until the Diamond Corporation created its own private intelligence agency and brought a master spy chaser to South Africa to block the illegal pipelines at their source. Illustrated with black & white photos. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers show a trace of foxing along spine on back cover, o/w only very minor surface and edgewear. Quite Scarce. Collectable.
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Detalles
- Librería
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004201
- Título
- THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS
- Autor
- Fleming, Ian
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine to Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Printing, First Edition Thus.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Collier Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1964
- Palabras clave
- TRUE CRIME, DIAMOND SMUGGLING, FIRST EDITION,THEFT, INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE, SOUTH AFRICA
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Spy; True Crime; Vintage Paperback;
Términos de venta
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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Sobre el vendedor
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Canandaigua, New York
Sobre H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
