Holy Treasure!

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around white background with a red part-block with capitalised white lettered author name and other white lettered title to same,a narrow oblique band below with capitalised white lettered 'M CRIME CASE' and a colour photographic illustrated oblique panel beneath to front panel of dw/dj,spine/backstrip with author's capitalised black-lettered name,and red +black separate panels with capitalised white lettered title and publisher colophon to each respectively; rear panel with 6 critics' author's reviews to same. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges very lightly toned but clean without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-218pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title,title page,a dedication and to the rear,4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally, the book is also in anacceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age. It is only the minor faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them, it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its brightness. Author's 13th Mark Treasure novel.A novel featuring the banker-sleuth,Mark Treasure. A crumbling church, ripe for development,stirs up dangerous rivalries,and after the vicar's downtrodden wife launches a repair fund there is a brutally convenient death. Treasure finds himself unpicking a knot of high finance and low crime. David Stuart Williams (b. 8th June,1926 – d. 26th September, 2003) was an advertising executive who became a crime writer after suffering a stroke. He had written crime fiction in his spare time,with 'Unholy Writ' being written before his stroke in 1976. He turned from advertising to writing "whodunnits": he wrote 23 novels in all,most featuring Mark Treasure,a graduate of Jesus College,Oxford and vice-chairman of a merchant bank,and his successful actress wife Molly. A second series of books featured Chief Inspector Merlin Parry of the South Wales Constabulary,together with Sergeant Gomer Lloyd. His books were twice shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award and he was elected as a member of the Detection Club in 1988. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **