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Fear Is The Key.
by Maclean, Alistair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD+/GD/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Colllins, 1961-01-01. 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.. Hardback. GD+/GD/ND. Box 24 HARDBACK ""BOOTS BOOKLOVERS LIBRARY COPY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1961* Publisher: COLLINS. * Binding and cover condition: Dull blue cloth covered boards, black title to spine only. Boots booklovers library copy with green shield shaped impression to face. Somewhat worn & darkened spine with eyelet at head & darkening to all edges. GD.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp and tight with some reading wear. Small owners name to ffep. Some age darkening to page margins and edges. Marks to a few pages within text block. No annotations. GD+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 255 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A complex plot involving an air attack, an oilfield, a court case and a plot to exact revenge. In the prologue, set in May 1958, John Talbot, owner of Trans Carib Air Charter C0, is at an airfield in British Honduras, awaiting radio contact with one of his aircraft en route to Tampa, Florida, which is being piloted byhis twin brother and in which his wife and baby son are passengers. Not long after he establishes contact the aircraft is attacked by a P-51 Mustang, after which all contact is lost. And that is just the Prologue !! Later (1972) made into a film starring Barry Newman and Suzy Kendall.* This is a NEAR GD+ copy of the 1st/1st COLLINS edition, with some age and wear reducing it to GD+.* 0
Synopsis
Fear Is the Key is a 1961 thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, and a 1972 British film based upon it.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10162
- Title
- Fear Is The Key.
- Author
- Maclean, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - GD+/GD/ND
- Edition
- 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Colllins
- Date Published
- 1961-01-01
- Pages
- 258
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Crisp
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- Tight
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
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