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Sixty Days to Live
by Dennis Wheatley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£195.00£175.50
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co. , 1939. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A first edition copy of this thrilling apocalyptic novel by the best-selling author, David Wheatley. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's cloth binding with a facsimile dust wrapper. With illustrated maps to the paste-downs and endpapers, designed by Diana Younger. Lavina Leigh is a popular film star, living a life of luxury in wealthy London. When an attractive millionaire enters her life, she is faced with a problem: should she marry him or focus on her career? Her astronomer uncle then declares that a comet is heading straight towards Earth, giving everyone only sixty days left to live. Lavina's problems keep on getting worse. A story of thrills, action and romance by David Wheatley, one of the world's best-selling authors during the 1930s-60s. With 41 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the book. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with shelf wear to the extremities and spine. Marks to the boards. A few handling marks to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Creasing to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the occasional spot and mark. Light age-toning to the edges. A few pages have some light offsetting, though this does not affect the text. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 830G1
- Title
- Sixty Days to Live
- Author
- Dennis Wheatley
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- Gregory Sallust James Bond Apocalypse Diana Younger James Bond
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
Welcome to Rooke Books Antiquarian Bookseller
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Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Facsimile
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- Publisher's cloth
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- 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...
- Shelf Wear
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