Brandon Returns: A Mark Brandon Thriller by Warren, Vernon - No date

Thriller Book Club, London, No date. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Poor. Red coloured boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A hard-boiled crime fiction thriller from the 1950s -- given the manner in which the main character speaks i.e., "Then I opened my eyes to see the black outlines of men in the doorway and just inside the room. The hallway light was on and the automatics in the hands of the men gleamed dully. My heater was under my pillow; my hands strict for it and I started firing." -- from the front fold over panel blurb.   Bumping and fading to the backstrip edges and bumping to the book corners. A few stains to the front book panel. Browning and marking of the text block edges. Browning, offset tanning and moisture residue to the endpapers and browning to the internal text. Rubbing and chipping, with considerable loss, to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. Very heavy rubbing to the front dustwrapper panel, fold over creases and spine creases. Rubbing and chipping to the other dustwrapper edges as well. Yellowing, handling marks and a few stains to the rear dustwrapper panel.  Size: 12mo (standard paperback). IV, 5-192 pages, last page blank. . Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Crime Fiction; Fiction -- Vintage ; Inventory No: 0107901. .