The Hellfire Club
by Mannix, Daniel P
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Four Square Books / Horwitz Publications. Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1962). Softcover. Covers rubbed and faded. Some creasing to covers. Heavy rubbing to edges of spine. Heavy creasing to spine. 10mm tear at tail of spine. Moderate foxing. No signatures. ; 1963 reprint of a title originally published in the US by Ballantine Books in 1959. First Horwitz edition. "Four Square - Horwitz Australian Edition, 1962". 192 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 178 x 113mm. Non-fiction. "The rise and fall of a shocking secret society, whose sole interests were perversion and politics". - from front cover. "Scandal was sport to the Members of the Hellfire Club - Some of the most prominent men of the day indulged in secret orgies and revels and the exposure of this notorious club's activities has repelled the world for two centuries." - from blurb on rear cover. Series: Horwitz Four Square series, #FH32. [Reference: Flanagan (1994) "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide", p. 40] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25708
- Title
- The Hellfire Club
- Author
- Mannix, Daniel P
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Four Square Books / Horwitz Publications
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1962)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Reprint
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