Freight Dogs
by Foden, Giles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0297868012
- ISBN 13
- 9780297868019
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2021.* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. * Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth covered boards, red metallic titles to spine only. No bumps or rubs, some minor wear to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a plane over a forest. Yellow and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £18.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small nick to lower edge, now re-inforced and in an un-attached clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Small neat dedication to front paste-down. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 400 pp. text. xi pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: 1996: In a Ugandan dive bar, the freight dogs gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warning African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit ? Manu, a 19-year old cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war. Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, he is soon seeing his vast country from above and falling in love with flying. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble follows closely behind. And when the past erupts back into his new life, Manu is forced to leave behind African skies for the chilly embrace of northern Europe. Will Manu be able to re-invent himself yet again?* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with minimal faults. Now in a clear un-attached protective jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9729
- Title
- Freight Dogs
- Author
- Foden, Giles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0297868012
- ISBN 13
- 9780297868019
- Publisher
- W&N
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 411
- Date Published
- 2021-09-16
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