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The Poison Chasers.
by CALVIN, HENRY:
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- Hardcover
- first
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hutchinson. London. 1971 1st edition.. Tall 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded with small chips at top. Creases to fly leaves. Top edge slightly creased. Not price clipped). Slight browning to endpapers. Owner's neat inscription on front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 223pp. Modern first edition. There's this pollution research centre in remotest Scotland. John Carlyle is in charge of a straightforward, routine construction job. Routine? The corpses in the loch are a little out of the ordinary. Straighforward? Sheep dropping dead, gassed apparently. An entertaining, mystifying and fast-moving suspense story.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55738
- Title
- The Poison Chasers.
- Author
- CALVIN, HENRY:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson. London. 1971 1st edition.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature HENRY CALVIN, Poison Chasers, pollution research, Scotland, construction job, corpses, Sheep, gassed, mystery, suspense, Modern first edition,
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