83 Hours Till Dawn
by Miller, Gene; Mackle, Barbara Jane
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1971. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. True story of the bizarre kidnapping & rescue in 1968 of college student & heiress Barbara Jane Mackle from a motel in Decatur, Georgia, while she & her mother were en route home to Coral Gables, Florida. Includes, for the first time, her account of the crime & her ordeal while buried underground for 83 hours. In 416 pages + 8 pages of black-and-white photos. From the collection of one true-crime enthusiast (with their name label on ffep), this is a Book Club Edition (BCE) of the First Edition from 1971. With beige cloth over boards lettered in black to spine, the hardcover book is in Fine condition: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages slightly off-white. The unclipped DJ is VG, with mild edgewear & rubbing to extremities, but no fading; protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 020676
- Title
- 83 Hours Till Dawn
- Author
- Miller, Gene; Mackle, Barbara Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- COLLEGE STUDENTS WOMEN GIRLS KIDNAPPING TRUE CRIME BURIED ALIVE BURIAL HEIRESS FLORIDA EMORY UNIVERSITY GEORGIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters;
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- VG
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- Fine
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- Book Club Edition
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- Rubbing
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- New
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- Cloth
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