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The Great Impersonation
by Oppenheim, E. Phillips
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Triangle, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. New York: Triangle, 1939. Reprint. Very Good/Very Good+. Triangle Books Edition (1939) in clean illustrated dust jacket. Clean orange cloth boards with black title box on cover, black lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, but tanned. Clean blue endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 322 pages. Dust jacket has wear and small tears at top spine edge, a few additional very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Considered by some to be Oppenheim's greatest spy story. Leaving England under suspicion as a murderer, Sir Everard Dominey turns up in German East Africa after ten years of wandering and is rescued from death in the jungle by the German Commandant, Baron von Ragastein, a former fellow-student at Oxford. What follows is a story of impersonation, romance, and a revelation of the German espionage system that is filled with suspense - and a mystery that the reader won't solve until the end of the story..
Synopsis
From the book:The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. It developed the next morning, when he found himself for the first time for many months on the truckle bed, between linen sheets, with a cool, bamboo-twisted roof between him and the relentless sun. He raised himself a little in the bed. "Where the mischief am I?" he demanded. A black boy, seated cross-legged in the entrance of the banda, rose to his feet, mumbled something and disappeared. In a few moments the tall, slim figure of a European, in spotless white riding clothes, stooped down and came over to Dominey's side.
Reviews
On Feb 8 2017, a reader said:
This book is one of my favourite books of all time!!!! Not only does Oppenheim masterfully weave the threads of the plot together in a startling climax, he also keeps the reading guessing throughout as to the characters' real identities. Mystery, intrigue, romance, adventure, murder, impersonation... this book has it all.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023804
- Title
- The Great Impersonation
- Author
- Oppenheim, E. Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Triangle
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- ESPIONAGE, GERMAN SPY STORY, WORLD WAR II, E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, SUSPENSE, MYSTERY, VINTAGE MYSTERY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime; Espionage;
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About the Seller
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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.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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