signed first edition
1980 · New York
by Judson Philips [a.k.a. Hugh Pentecost]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [4],187pp. Light shelf wear and some dust-soil to jacket, spine panel a bit sunned, boards slightly scuffed at extremities, else Very Good and sound. With a humorous and bridge-themed author inscription on front free endpaper: "For Helen C. / who will bid a slam or double the enemy while the rest of us are shuffling our feet! Love, Judson Philips / June 1980."
One of the author's late thrillers featuring journalist Peter Styles, published as (truncated)
One of the author's late thrillers featuring journalist Peter Styles, published as (truncated)