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Alistair MacLean | First Editions
1922 - 1987
See below our stock of Alistair MacLean First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Athabasca.
London: Collins, 1980. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.252. Publisher's light blue cloth with silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket photographed by James Elliott. A clean, near fine copy in similar price-clipped jacket. A novel of adventure, intrigue, sabotage and murder, set in the unforgiving oil fields..... More
Bear Island.
London: Collins, 1971. [Murder Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Norman Weaver, priced at £1.50. Near fine in similar jacket, lightly sunned to spine. Seafaring suspense novel set in the arduous North Atlantic... More
The Guns of Navarone.
London: Collins, 1957. [WWII adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 14s. A lovely fine copy of the book in similar jacket. One of the author's most popular titles, and the basis for the epic 1961..... More
The Guns of Navarone.
London: Collins, 1957. [WWII adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.318; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 14s. A very good copy which is a little rubbed and toned. One of the author's most popular titles, and the basis for the epic 1961..... More
HMS Ulysses.
London: Collins, 1955. [Nautical thriller] FIRST EDITION. Author's first book. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper by John Rose. Contents clean, discreet name to flyleaf (masked by map), jacket with a few small chips and tears, rear panel..... More
HMS Ulysses.
London: Collins, 1955. [Naval Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose. Some offsetting to endpapers; edges quite heavily toned. Price-clipped jacket toned to folds, edges and spine, with some light..... More
The Lonely Sea. Collected Short Stories.
London: Collins, 1985. [Seafaring adventures] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.222 [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Paul Wright priced at £9.95. Author's "30th Anniversary" bookplate to flyleaf, with facsimile signature (often mistakenly described as signed). In fine condition, although paper has..... More
Puppet on a Chain.
London: Collins, 1969. [Smuggling adventure]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in macabre pictorial dust-jacket designed by Norman Weaver. Some very slight creasing and nicking to the top and bottom edges of the dust-jacket, else a near fine bright copy. Heroin smuggling..... More
Seawitch.
London: Collins, 1977. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.221 [3], blank. Publisher's blue-green cloth with silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket photographed by Roy Botterell. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket, a trifle sunned to spine. Classic MacLean 'vendetta' novel, uncovering kidnap and betrayal in the cut..... More
South by Java Head.
London: Collins, 1958. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 14s. Minor spotting, small scuff/sticker pull to flyleaf, jacket fine but for a tiny chip to crown. Shows well. A war-time adventure set on the South China..... More
The Way to Dusty Death.
London: Collins, 1973. [Grand Prix thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by John Constable, priced at £2.00. A near fine copy in like jacket. Unusual to find this copy unclipped. More
Breakheart Pass.
London: Collins, 1974. [Historical adventure thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper. Owner inscription, bright jacket with small chip at foot of spine, price clipped. Very good. Suspense novel set in 1870s Nevada, at a US..... More
Caravan To Vaccares.
London: Collins, 1970. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.251. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy of the book in near fine, price-clipped jacket with some sunning to spine. A gripping manhunt thriller set in Provence. Basis..... More
Floodgate.
London: Collins, 1983. [Disaster novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23x 13cm), pp.[ii]; 315; [3]., blank. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial dust wrapper. Price-clipped else a clean, near fine copy. A ransom thriller concerning a group of IRA-sympathisers and their plot to decimate Amsterdam's Schiphol..... More
River of Death.
London: Collins, 1981. [Amazon jungle adventure thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192; [4], blank. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust wrapper. A lightly handled copy, wrapper lightly sunned to spine. Very good. Revenge novel based around a lost city expedition in..... More
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