Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 292 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Shaft successes behind him, Tidyman has written a somewhat more seriously intentioned novel of Cleveland detectives during an all too body-filled period of two or three days -- hard rain, black sky, a cold wind coming down off Lake Erie, and a killer cop as a hit man for the local Mafia. The reader is swept from scene to bleak scene of violence, sinister pizza parlors, bars, hijackings, gunnings, rapes with plenty of police procedure. Detective James Dempsey, aging, balding, divorced by a frigid wife who boils like a screaming kettle whenever he tries to visit his kids, is an empty man who sells his soul to the big hoods and plans to start over in South America when his nest egg outweighs his leaden heart. But the department has finally started looking into the six deaths for which he's responsible. While the Mafia steps up its truck heists, Dempsey gets paid to rub out a driver-stoolie. He's also into some mad athletics with a throaty singer. His demise brings fair irony -- strong enough for a flick -- but Tidyman's fake grim humor never rises above the crime entertainment level even if he has something more ambitious in mind. Still it might do well. Condition: Corners gently bumped, small tape stain to front paste down. Jacket lightly soiled, 2 inch by 1 inch jagged tear to spine head extending to back else very good in like jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers L1161
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Anbieter: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0003516238
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Anbieter: The Bookworm, Oroville, CA, USA
Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Officer James Dempsey is what any police force fears most: a killer copy for hire. Dempsey kills for pay and doctors the reports. Nobody asks questions. But one report has too many stray bullets and the police start hunting down a traitor in their midst. This follows Cleveland's police force through a city on the verge of explosion. Ethnic neighborhoods cry for law and order while a ghetto smolders. A sniper plays God by murdering the wicked. The mob hijacks trucks with an efficiency that baffles detectives. For the police from the flatfoot to the lab man, it's all in the line of duty. But Dempsey, the perfect hit man, isn't on the blotter.'' BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with silver spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Brown endpapers. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 292 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 065392
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Anbieter: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good-Very Good. Ratzkin, Lawrence (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, so stated, 10/74. Near fine in dust jacket, moderately soiled at rear panel, light wear, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Small publishers line at bottom of pages. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021379
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Anbieter: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0316845116. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with brown stains on spine, minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 166799
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Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA
Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Q20OS-00294
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Anbieter: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA, Woodstock, IL, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($6.95), a closed tear at the top edge of the spine, a few spots of soiling throughout. Red cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. From the author of Shaft, a crime thriller about James Dempsey, a killer cop for hire, and his work for the Cleveland police department during a period of racial tensions. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16210
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Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16537
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Anbieter: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1693667608699
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Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA
Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (literature, Fiction, Drama, Crime). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers NC05A-00727
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