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Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. First Edition. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Minor droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Notable cracking to joints.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition. Reddish-plum boards with gilt on spine. Previous owners' names on ffep, else clean. Dust jacket has chipping to top edge of rear panel; short closed tear to top edge of front panel; not price clipped (15s net); in an archival mylar sleeve. 222, [1] pages. A Tommy Hambledon adventure of international intrigue.

Stated first American edition. Price-clipped jacket has a number of chips, scratches and creases. Rubbing to board edges with a large dent to rear top corner and smaller dents to side. Small tear to cloth at fold between spine and front board. A couple of small spots to page edges. Unmarked.

London: White Lion Publishers, Ltd., 1972. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, price-clipped, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a clean used first White Lion edition! Very very rare! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 222 suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! Extremely rare and hard-to-find! "....'Which means,' said the representative from the Foreign Office, summing up, 'that when the Sultan, who is over eighty, dies, we shall not only bethrown out of Qathusn lock, stock and barrel, and the British-American capital which has been sunk in developing the oil fields lost, but also we shall have a rabid enemy at the very gates of Aden, who may very well succeed in alienating the whole of the Trucial coast and all the other oil States in the Gulf.'.....". First Thus. Red Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read More