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The Talbot Odyssey
by De Mille, Nelson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385293224
- ISBN 13
- 9780385293228
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 422pp. Inscribed by Nelson De Mille at title page to Earlene Scott, owner of Scott's Books in Newnan, Georgia. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with small tear near tail of spine, wear to fold-overs, and gentle bumping to head of spine. Tan paper over boards, with spine backed in red cloth and lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head of spine, else fine, firm, and sound. Light dust soiling to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very handsome signed first printing of this spy novel by Nelson De Mille.
Synopsis
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole--code-named Talbot--inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets--leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3566
- Title
- The Talbot Odyssey
- Author
- De Mille, Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385293224
- ISBN 13
- 9780385293228
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- The heel of the spine.
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