ISBN: 9780241113233 - the golden express (3 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Fine in fine Dust Jacket. First edition, 1st printing. Set in 1940.

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Page edges browning. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 255pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Light shelf wear and grime to unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped, paper starting to tone. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design by Donald Macpherson. ; 167 pages; 1940 and the gold reserves of the Bank of England are being shipped to America for safety, but they don't make it there. Instead they fall into the hands of the Germans and are shipped to Hamburg for transfer by train to Berlin. The only way to get the gold back is for a small group to hi-jack the train and try to get it back through enemy territory to the channel ports before the German invasion of France closes them off. A notorious gold thief is saved from the hangman's noose and given the task of pulling off the biggest train robbery of all time. Ex-Lib.…