Dreadful Summit
by Stanley Ellin
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin, UK, 1964. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 128 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 1964. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Every sports fan in New York knows Al Judge, the hard-bitten reporter whose column is the scourge of gamblers, gangsters, and corrupt players across the city. Sixteen-year-old George LaMain is Judge's biggest fan right up until the night he decides the writer has to die. George is in his father's saloon, waiting for his dad to give him his birthday present: a trip to the fights at Madison Square Garden. They are about to leave when Judge demands George's father strip and lie down on the barroom floor. George doesn't know why, but his old man does it and Judge beats him senseless in front of the whole bar. When he's finished crying, George takes his father's gun and sets out into the night. To avenge his disgraced father, he plans to gun Al Judge down. But before he can become a killer, this birthday boy will have to grow into a man. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 17100410..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17100410
- Title
- Dreadful Summit
- Author
- Stanley Ellin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Dreadful Summit
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...