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BARRIER ISLAND: A NOVEL

by MacDONALD**, JOHN D:

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9780340399521
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Ink,gift (Xmas) presentation to ffe and price-clipped to dw/dj.Pictorial,colour illustrated,white background upper panel dw/dj with green+black letters and publisher advert and critics reviews in black+red letters to rear panel.Minimal shelf-wear and no rubbing; negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - with no nicks or tears present.Top two corners lightly bumped+creased and minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore- edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine but for already mentioned inscrptn.Unblemished,plain green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright, clean,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-229pp includes title+half-title pages. It was an uninhabited undeveloped island you couldn't even see on a clear day from the Mississippi coastline,squatting low in the hurricane path out in the bay.But Tucker Loomis had bought plots of land all over it and had drawn elegant plans for millionaire developments he was going to build.Or was he? Was it just a great land scam,the sort of thing you might expect from a man like clever old Tuck Loomis? When the Park Service step in to slap a preservation order on the island for a hitherto unregarding USA,intentions become very much the issue round the West Bay business community,and not only those of the buccaneering speculator,Loomis.The Bernard Island scandal provokes a crisis of conscience in the real estate partnership handling the business,and as the favours asked begin to exceed favours given,first one dead body turns up and then another. John D.MacDonald understands all too clearly the springs of self-interest which keep the wheels of small town business turning,the cogs within cogs,the golf-course deals,and the pay-offs which sometimes come that bit too dear and too dangerous.The result is a masterly novel about decency and greed,power and violence. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
BARRIER ISLAND: A NOVEL
Author
MacDONALD**, JOHN D:
Book Condition
Used - Near FINE.
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Near FINE.
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
034039952X
ISBN 13
9780340399521
Publisher
LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1987.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1987
Keywords
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