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The Dreadful Lemon Sky

The Dreadful Lemon Sky

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The Dreadful Lemon Sky

by MacDONALD, John D

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0397010745
ISBN 13
9780397010745
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 228pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only. Tight and handsome early (not first) printing of the 16th title in the Travis McGee series. No code in gutter on final text page (226), which apparently makes this a variant printing of some sort.

Synopsis

John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear . In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Title
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
Author
MacDONALD, John D
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
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1
ISBN 10
0397010745
ISBN 13
9780397010745
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott Company
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Date Published
1974
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Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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