pseudonym robert fish (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Crime Club/Doubleday & Company. Garden City, New York. , 1963. 183 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Number present to the front pastedown. Light offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. . A very scarce copy of Robert Fish's early book and first written under the "Robert L. Pike" pseudonym. Book that was turned into the acclaimed film "Bullitt" starring Steve McQueen. Clancy doesn't care that the shooter is a witness in an important trial. All he knows is that the guy has a gunand no one pulls a gun on Lieutenant Clancy of the NYPD. Shooting the state's witness earns Clancy a transfer to the backwater 52nd Precinct. To get his career on track, he is forced to accept a humiliating assignment: babysitting mob kingpin Johnny Rossi while he waits to testify before the crime commission. When a thug guns Rossi down in his hotel room, Clancy suspects the killer had a man inside. He will bring fiery justice to those responsible, whether the rats are in the mafia or in City Hall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Ronnie Lesser GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. Rare >>> 144 pages.; " When gangster kingpin Johnny Rossi comes to New York to testify against his crime syndicate associates, it falls to Lieutenant Clancy to keep the government's star witness safe. Why Rossi has come to New York from California, and what is so crucial about his testimony are questions only District Attorney Chalmers seems to know. When guarding Rossi becomes a more difficult and perplexing task than Clancy had anticipated, he begins to uncover something much more sinister." >>This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

First edition. Octavo, cloth. This is the third mystery novel to feature the character Lt. Clancy, of the NYPD. The first Pike novel Mute Witness was the source material for the Steve McQueen film Bullitt. A near fine copy, previous owners name in ink to front free end paper, some offsetting to end paper in a near fine dust jacket with some light edge rubbing. (10150).

First edition. Octavo, cloth. This book was the source material for the Steve McQueen feature film "Bullitt" The feature character Lt. Clancy appeared in two more novels. This is also the first novel using the Pike pseudonym. Previous owners neat gift inscription to upper left corner of front free endpaper, touch or rubbing to extremities, a nearly fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket, light shelf wear to corners, some age darkening to spine panel, some rubbing to rear panel. front panel colors bright as well as no fading to colors on spine panel. An above average copy of an uncommon book. (13986).