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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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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. Lightly sunned to jacket spine. Near fine. More
Fear Is The Key.
London: Collins, 1961. [Adventure fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255; [1]. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Kean, with printed price 15s net. Some dustiness and toning. Very good, in like jacket with a few tears and one chip to..... More
The Last Frontier.
London: Collins 1959. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Near fine in a very good dust-wrapper, slightly chipped and rubbed. An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong; a classic early Cold..... 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
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, priced at 25s/£1.25. A little rubbed to spine tips else a clean, near fine copy. Heroin smuggling thriller set in Amsterdam; an Interpol..... 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. Toning to edges, faint ghosts of some tape to endpapers, tiny ink stamp to rear pastedown, jacket a little dusty and frayed at crown. Very good..... 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
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