[1st printing](1968) #d1940. Cover is uncredited. Paperback original. Previous owner has made minor notes on rear cover and a word is underlined on p. 31; cover erasure; a little lean.
Gold Medal Book #D1940, 1968, 1st book edition, paperback original, rare US crime vintage paperback, a Tanner crime novel, complete but very worn copy, many defects, so a reading copy only, so only Good+.
Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. (Gold Medal D1940) Paperback Original. First Edition. / Cover bright. Some chipping to top and bottom edge of cover and bumping to corners. Light reading-wear and faint tanning to page edges. Binding square and solid. Illustrator: Robert McGinnis. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Mystery; Inventory No: 017100.
Publisher: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book [1968], Greenwich
Date published: 1968
Format: Softcover
Greenwich: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book [1968]. Fair. 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. First edition [a paperback original]. Fawcett Gold Medal Book D1940 with 50 cents cover price. Part of the Evan Tanner series [Hubin, 1984 Crime Fiction, page 38]. "Tanner knew you always grabbed a purring tiger right where it counts --- by the tail". 192 pages. Reading/filler copy only [spine badly cocked and creased with tearing/chipping to the heel front corner, laid into the book is a piece detached from the upper corner of the rear cover, dampstaining to about half of the inside front cover, cheap paper tanning]. .
Gold Medal #DI940, 1968. First printing, paperback original. A Very Good copy. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Sticker pull on the rear cover. Rubs to the front cover's edges. The number 30 is stamped on the first page's upper right corner.
First edition stated. A Fine book, clean, square, no marks or writing. In a Fine, bright dust jacket, not price-clipped ($30.00). No remainder mark. Signed on the title page: "To.Enjoy! Lawrence Block."
Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc. - A Fawcett Gold Medal Book, Greenwich Connecticut
Date published: 1968
Format: Softcover
192 Pages. #D1940 50 cents cover price. Pages lightly age-tanned. Glossy covers and no marks or stamps. Tanner knew you always grabbed a purring tiger right where it counts, by the tail. Blow up the Queen of England? Why not? It was all in a good cause. Evan Tanner, famous as the thief who couldn't sleep, had merely wanted to take his girl to the fair, only it turned out to be an international freak show with a royal assassination as the main event. That's when tannere recruited the bit of French pastry named Arlette, a girl as inviting as whipped cream, and as tasy as any tart.
Paperback original (Gold Medal #d1940), the fifth title in the Evan Tanner series. Very good in original wraps. Reading crease on slightly cocked spine, a little edgewear to covers, and a crease at lower part of rear cover. Signed by the author on the title page.
First hardcover edition. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. Yellow endpapers. 225 pages. Original afterword by Lawrence Block and original dustjacket art by Phil Parks. Fine in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. SIGNED (signature only) by author on title page. The author's fifth novel featuring Tanner, originally published in paperback in 1968.
Thriller. First published by Fawcett/Gold Medal as a paperback original in 1968: now issued in hardcover with Phil Parks cover art and a new nine page afterword from the author. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Subterranean Press hardcover w/ DJ, 2001. Book is VG to VG+, w/ clean text, solid binding. DJ is VG+, w/ very light edge/shelf wear. Signed by author on title page.
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