Cold war in a country garden - Hardcover
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, 189 pp; binding is slightly cocked; unclipped dust jacket shows minor signs of wear; in a protective sleeve;
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- PublisherCape
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0224005138
- ISBN 13 9780224005135
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages189
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Cold War in a Country Garden
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Jonathan Cape, London
(1971)
ISBN 10: 0224005138
ISBN 13: 9780224005135
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper (wraparound) with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The first of the Matthew Dilke novels, a combination of James Bond?, Shrinking Man, and science fiction. Softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of the other book edges. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Age toning and some spotting of the text block edges and age toning of the pages. Slight cock of the spine. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with a little sunning of the back strip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 192 pages, All Four Corners Clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0224005138. ISBN/EAN: 9780224005135. Inventory No: 0213626. Seller Inventory # 0213626
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COLD WAR IN A COUNTRY GARDEN
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(1971)
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. The first of three espionage novels featuring agent Matthew Dilke, a micro man one quarter of an inch in height. "They are all splendid adventure stories and powerfully engage the sense of wonder." - Smith (ed), Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers (1986), p. 307. Hubin (1994), p. 360. Reginald 06505. Damp-staining to bottom edge of rear panel, a very good copy in very good dust jacket with corresponding damp staining on bottom inside of rear panel. (#128607). Seller Inventory # 128607
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COLD WAR IN A COUNTRY GARDEN
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(1971)
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ISBN 13: 9780224005135
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Cheap Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED. Seller Inventory # 005719
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Cold War in a Country Garden
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London: Jonathan Cape 1971 First UK Hardcover Edition 8vo 189pp ISBN: 0224005138, London
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ISBN 10: 0224005138
ISBN 13: 9780224005135
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex-Library, fair reading copy, in fair DW. Seller Inventory # 8730
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Cold War in a Country Garden first Edition Hardback in Dustjacket
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in original dust jacket , Book has small name written on front endpapaer ,no other inscriptions , no spine lean , no tears to pages , usual page toning with age , in jacket that is not faded , no tears , not price-clipped , toned with age , front flap has a crease , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in removable dust jacket plastic , double bubble-wrapped and in a strong box . We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999. Seller Inventory # 88855278
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Matthew Dilke #1 Cold War in a Country Garden
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London
(1971)
ISBN 10: 0224005138
ISBN 13: 9780224005135
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good PC Dw. Bill Botten (illustrator). First Edition. 189pp. 8 inches. Dark green buckram, gilt titles on spine. Slightly sunned upper edge. Grey tops, lightly foxed other edges. Internally nearly as new, no owner's marks, occasional fox spot to endpaper, prelims. In original pictorial jacket, wraparound art by Bill Botten, slight age-spotting, and p/c leaf. Combines spy thriller with science fiction. First of trilogy. A miniaturized Matthew Dilke, a "microagent" for British Intelligence, and the rest of his quarter-inch platoon, accustomed to battling deadly predators such as ants and centipedes, are sent on a mission to Eastern Europe. 330g (Science fiction, Fantasy, Miniaturised, Espionage, Ecology) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # C15957
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