GOING IT ALONE
by Innes Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original red cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original dustjacket. [vi], 185 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine. FIRST EDITION. Gilbert Averell, though he is neither a tycoon nor a po star, is avoiding some of the rigours of British taxation by living for part of the time in France. But he is unhappy about the number of weeks in every year that he has to spend in exile from his native land. So he falls for his insouciant riend Georges's suggestion that, as they look much alike, they should exchange passports for a shor spell, thus enabling Gilbert to have illicit weeks in England under his friend's name--while Georges (who bears the title of Prince de Silistrie) takes a jaunt to Italy with Gilbert's passport. What occurs is attempted murder, blackmail, kidnapping and bank robbery. Another of Michael Innes' very readable novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32449
- Title
- GOING IT ALONE
- Author
- Innes Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
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